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