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