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