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