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