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