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