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