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