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