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