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