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