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