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