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