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