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