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