These days the freak show is virtual.

And the performers are not paid.

They whittle away on the gadget to pass time.

The fat lady eats between shows to become more of an object for the audience to be amused by.

The armless and legless man the audience recoils in horror from but becan not look away from might smoke to excess between shows.

It is the same with the victual carnival of mental patients told their voices come from cell towers and mind control beams.

The performers gets sicker , stranger and less -and more.

Some become so not part of humanity they acto out. They shoot or stab strangers.

They become the role assigned.