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