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author | Case Duckworth | 2015-01-31 13:10:17 -0700 |
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1 | --- | ||
2 | title: 'Ronald McDonald' | ||
3 | project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves' | ||
4 | project-order: 26 | ||
5 | genre: 'verse' | ||
6 | ... | ||
7 | |||
8 | When Ronald McDonald takes off his [striped shirt][], \ | ||
9 | his coveralls, his painted face: when he no longer looks \ | ||
10 | like anyone or anything special, sitting next to women | ||
11 | |||
12 | in bars or standing in the aisle at the grocery, \ | ||
13 | is he no longer Ronald? Is he no longer happy to kick \ | ||
14 | a soccer ball around with the kids in the park, | ||
15 | |||
16 | is he suddenly unable to enjoy the french fries \ | ||
17 | he gets for his fifty percent off? I'd like to think \ | ||
18 | that he takes Ronald off like a shirt, hangs him | ||
19 | |||
20 | in a closet where he breathes darkly in the musk. \ | ||
21 | I'd like to believe that we are able to slough off selves \ | ||
22 | like old skin and still retain some base self. | ||
23 | |||
24 | Of course we all know this is not what happens. \ | ||
25 | The Ronald leering at women drunkenly is the same who \ | ||
26 | the next day kicks at a ball the size of a head. | ||
27 | |||
28 | He is the same that hugs his children at night, \ | ||
29 | who has sex with his wife on the weekends when they're \ | ||
30 | not so tired to make it work, who smiles holding | ||
31 | |||
32 | a basket of fries in front of a field. He cannot \ | ||
33 | take off the facepaint or the [yellow gloves][]. They are \ | ||
34 | stuck to him like so many feathers with the tar | ||
35 | |||
36 | of his everyday associations. His plight is that \ | ||
37 | of everyone's---we are what we do who we are. | ||
38 | |||
39 | [striped shirt]: theoceanoverflowswithcamels.html | ||
40 | [yellow gloves]: roughgloves.html | ||