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