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