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