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