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