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