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