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