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