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