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