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