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