From my table at Planet Coffee, I can see a man in the breezeway, standing in the space between two benches on the wet bricks.
He's talking steadily, gesturing as if he were giving a presentation or sermon. He looks a bit like an actor memorizing a speech. His expression is earnest, and his focus, although inward, moves smoothly to various parts of the tiny plaza, as a speaker would, surrounded by rapt listeners. He has an earpiece in his ear and a cellphone held loosely in front of him at waist-level.
I can't hear him through the thick glass, but I find myself hoping he really is talking to somebody...
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I thought it might be nice to give little earpieces to all of the homeless here in town, so that people might wonder if they were talking to others on the phone instead of their usual selves.
Lily Tomlin once suggested: “Wouldn’t it be great if all the people in New York who talk to themselves were paired off, so it looks like they’re talking to each other?”
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