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