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