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