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