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