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