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