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