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