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