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