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