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