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