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