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