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