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