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