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