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