Another puts his head inside the Free Real Estate Guide dispenser and bellows, "Bushels of wheat everywhere!" One covers the city in magic marker formulas such as "CBS minus HMO equals TAMPA." A man resembling Christopher Lloyd wraps his right arm in electrical tape and calls everyone "Honeypardner." Asymmetrical women engage in heated arguments with themselves on every other public bench. One fellow 'sieg-heils' at intersections. Where I live now, on any given day- in fact, every day- one may spot some poor souls under compulsion to conduct counterintuitive acts in the streets, as if hexed into being involuntary performance artists. I hate to reduce the suffering of the mentally ill to spectacle, but damn they're entertaining! Every place I've lived in the lumpy American South has sustained a disproportionate number of tenured schizophrenics.
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