In the the arts, painters like to say: “I painted the painting I had to paint” –
composers: “I composed the symphony I had to compose”  --
authors: “I wrote the novel I had to write, ”
and the real-deal-man: “I lived the life I had to live  --  but also:
the only one I wanted  to live.”
 

No matter their sincerity: men who don't get it  --
who tell why they have done the things they've done --
always get it wrong  --  always.
 

Time Revisited.
The past has no future  --  in the future  --  for the real deal man.
    (“But how do we know for sure that such a man even HAS a future! --
                since he sure seems to have no past?!”)
 

Every man’s own life can be his personal mythology  --
if he is hip to what is going on with life.
 

An ordinary man wants others to find him entertaining  --
the certain man  --   just himself.
 

Said one man regarding what he was getting on his radio:
“I don’t care for what they’re playing  --  but the reception is good.”
 

In life  --   thing is: nobody really wants to be helped  –
which is part of the beauty, the safety, the balance and blithering excitement of it all.
    “Hey!  --  let’s hear it for LIFE!     (‘Fore life wants to hear it from us.”)
 

Chilling Though Useful Neural Topographical Update.
It‘s not much further from here to there
than it is from here to where you think you started out.
(“Take me home  --  country ruts.”
      “’Fraid you’re singing the wrong song young feller,
         to ever get that job completed.”)
City Scam News.
Some con jobs are pulled on the gullible  --  even more on the repetitive.
 

Fact.
More people appear to talk about it than actually talk about it.
Urban Construction News.
Some city structures are erected from imagination  --
even more from illusion.
 

One social critic (fancy term for: sorehead)
defines a party of people having fun as: A gang rape of civility.
Rarely in non catastrophic circumstances do hormones and neurons see eye to I.
(Or as one partner said to another: “If you’re not buggin’ me  -- you’re scarin’ me,”
to which the recipient of the comment  was tempted for a moment to reply:
“Well, what are partners for,” but instantly realized that as clever as it sounded  --
he had no idea what it meant.)
Fact.
Sometimes it’s good  to just let what’s said  --  slide-e-e-e-e.
 

One guy’s latest knock-knock joke (in which he says, because of time constraints,
the knock-knock has been omitted):
“What’s the difference between vocal music and talking?
With singing it’s easier to ignore what people are saying.”
 

In his struggle (as he puts it): “To keep himself semi honest”
one man says he has adopted this position:
“The best jokes are those which you must explain.”
Some find a ship off balance,  just-so
to be just what the voyage needed.
 

One man says: “I now finally see!  I only get hot when I think about it,
and I only think about it when I’m hot;
all that remains now is to climb out of this box                                  .........with my mind intact.”
 

The speaker opened his remarks thus:
“Before I get to the serious topic of this convention:
(‘Being able to think about what may happen to him is man’s greatest gift'),
I will begin with a joke:
‘Being able to think about what may happen to him is man’s greatest gift.’”
 

A gigantic visitor from another universe looked upon earth and its creatures,
and mused: “They all seem to be waiting for something to happen,”
and when the earthlings saw the alien they mulled:
“He seems to be expecting us to do something,”
then they both wondered: “What do I do now?”
 

A listener asked a DJ:
"Why are the oldies so popular?"
    "Because they're old."
"..............................................................................................................Oh."
 

Medical (And Otherwise) News.
After having (over a period of time) half his stomach, a lung, several lymph nodes,
and an eye removed,  one man finally came to a realization point:
“I’ll run out of body before they run out of scalpels.”
(Being that he had interests beyond the routine physical, he found a special application for his observation regarding surgery and the limits of his participation therein.)