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