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