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