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