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