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