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