Tension Brewing

every town can be a tense one, given the right circumstances, given the right squashing of personalities into the right sardine can & when the fuses get lit perfectly, so as to burn quick & thrust the whole scene into a frenzy, no one can claim that they didn’t see it coming when we were there the whole time to witness the tension brewing. have there always been those “peacemakers?” you know, the ones who see what’s happening between a couple of people rising in anger & feel the need to personally try & defuse it before there is a pool of blood staining the carpet--- and what motives have these, the “peacemakers,” who may be successful in talking down a potentially disastrous scuffle? there will always be the ones who flee quickly, as that first whiff of coming conflict starts filling the air & there will always be those whose own bloodlust, be it part of a public persona or deep inside the most nether regions of their mind, will keep them watching (and possibly participating) until the bitter end & so, what kind of stirring stick are you, in the tension brew?