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