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