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