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