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