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