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