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