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