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