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