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