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