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