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