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