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