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