That's life......

Insomnia sucks.....”I keep my eyes wide open all the time....”
Woke up at three in the A.M. thinking about a brawl in the muddy streets of Naminoue....for the uninformed, that is, or was anyway, might still be for that matter, the dirt-street shantytown home of ‘The Teahouse of the August Moon’.....a movie starring Marlon Brando as an Okinawan, a casting that insulted a lot of Japanese actors.....on that proverbial other hand, I seem to recall that the Japanese had a really low opinion of Okinawans in general ‘n would have been insulted had they been asked to portray an inferior being.....’Course that was then ‘n we are a more enlightened people t’day....(sure we are)....
Anyway.....the brawl I was recalling in my sleep took place several blocks away from the August Moon, closer to its sister (‘n financially more successful) bar, the Teahouse Moonview which has absolutely nothing t’do with the brawl.....I don’t recall the name of the bar where the brawl began but I c’n conjure up a picture in my mind....I only remember one of the participants....a friend of mine, an Indian from Green Bay who, in those pre PC days, we all called ‘Chief’....go figure.....Chief had been a Golden Gloves fighter ‘n it wasn’t at all unusual for him to be involved in a bar fight or street brawl.... the difference was this time marked an epiphany for me...as I watched Chief rolling around in the rain ‘n the mud I finally realized that muddy brawls are only funny in a John Wayne movie ‘n it was time to stop hitting people in the fist with my face ‘n move on......
Sometimes you think you’re going at life head on ‘n you get clipped from the side ‘n you c’n holler ‘Foul’ all you want but the world don’t care.....
The old joke went.....”That’s life!”.....”What’s life?”......”A magazine.”.....”How much does it cost?”.....”A dime.”......”I don’t have a dime.”......”That’s life.”