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