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