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