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