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