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