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