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