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