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