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