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