Kamala

Lower the volume, you'll lessen the conflict. If you're a straphanger you know that. If you get an unexpected heated response from someone you've accidentally jostled, you can apologize or say "fuck you" which is like raising someone in poker. "Fuck you" leads to "what did you say?" "Your mother!" "What did you say about my mother?" Or you could say "I'm sorry" and avoid an altercation. Trump has called Kamala Harris "garbage." He had accused her being stupid, more liberal than Bernie Sanders and the acolyte of the worst president in American history. In the face of these slurs, she stopped in mid-sentence the other day and simply described the remarks of her opponent and his vice-presidential running mate by pausing and saying, "It's just plain weird." You can't go nuclear unless you have unstable elements and an igniter. Without reactivity, there's no explosion. It may be lacking in excitement but it can also be gratifying to get off at the next stop and go about your business without having to think about what you could have or would have said to an angry person.

read "Francis Levy's Divine Comedy," Exquisite Corpse

and listen to "You'll Never Walk Alone" by Patti Labelle