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