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