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