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