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