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