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