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