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