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