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