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