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