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