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