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