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