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