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