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