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