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