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