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