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