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