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