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