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