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