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