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