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