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