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