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