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