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