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