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