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