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