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