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