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