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