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