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