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