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