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