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