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