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