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