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