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