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