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