STORIES FROM KINESIS

I'm on the A train (again) A stooped, older Black woman with a gorgeous hairwrap and her caretaker (family member? aid?) get on a mildly crowded train. The two men (one white, one Black) sitting near the door immediately get up, shuffle, switch places and slowly help the older woman into her seat --

On a cross town bus on the Upper East side: A woman steps onto the bus and is told by the driver that she has to use the new ticketing system (which is off the bus.) She steps off and goes to the machine, confused about this process, trying to make it work. A man on the bus toward the front, got

It's Pride weekend. A young man with a history of mental instability gets on the A train and declares he is going to the best Michael Jackson tribute performance ever..... then marches in places, stuck, no music, he doesn't have a speaker.....A woman on the train comes to him and says "If I sing,