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