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