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