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