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