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