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