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