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