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