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