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