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