A woman who toured for a few months with a certain band leader told me a story about him developing tinnitus, {the condition where one hears an unending frequency day and night}. She  disliked him,  he did a lot of rotten things to a lot of people including his wife and the crew who fielded regularly abuse from him. She believed his ailment was karma, and it pleased her he might be living with the fear of losing his mind. I wondered why she believed karma is real, doesn’t seem like it to me. She said if there was no karma then life would have no meaning and if life didn’t have any meaning she might as well stop making music. I stopped questioning didn’t want to fight and I also knew a few negative things about Mr. Tinnitus. I could understand the disinclination to feel pity. Too many wicked characters live and die with no penalty for the blood on their hands, doesn’t incline me to stop musicking, on the contrary it’s all the more worthwhile. I’ll take the artist’s pen as payback.