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