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