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