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