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