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