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