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