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