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