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