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