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