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