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