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