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