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