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