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