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