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