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