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