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