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