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