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