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