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