an anecdote           
                                          
 today it rained, and  i would go outside 
 i thought,  so  i  smoked a pipe and got 
 dressed,  and   outside  the   rain  had 
 turned  into snow  so  thick that it was 
 as dense fog  ... and then i went to get 
 the  mail, but there was a woman and  we 
 talked  a little. now because i was high 
 and  it  was snowing so funny and  i had 
 an umbrella against  the snow, but  snow 
 all over my face anyway, and i  wondered 
        about myself, and my life