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