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