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