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