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