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