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