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