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