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