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