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