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