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