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