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