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