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