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