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