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