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