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