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