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25 | <body> | 25 | <body> |
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27 | <article id="header"> | ||
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29 | <h1 class="title">Ronald McDonald</h1> | 30 | <h1 class="title">Ronald McDonald</h1> |
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32 | 33 | ||
33 | </header> | 34 | </header> |
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35 | <section class="thing verse"> | 36 | <section class="content verse"> |
36 | <p>When Ronald McDonald takes off his <a href="theoceanoverflowswithcamels.html">striped shirt</a>,<br />his coveralls, his painted face: when he no longer looks<br />like anyone or anything special, sitting next to women</p> | 37 | <p>When Ronald McDonald takes off his <a href="theoceanoverflowswithcamels.html">striped shirt</a>,<br />his coveralls, his painted face: when he no longer looks<br />like anyone or anything special, sitting next to women</p> |
37 | <p>in bars or standing in the aisle at the grocery,<br />is he no longer Ronald? Is he no longer happy to kick<br />a soccer ball around with the kids in the park,</p> | 38 | <p>in bars or standing in the aisle at the grocery,<br />is he no longer Ronald? Is he no longer happy to kick<br />a soccer ball around with the kids in the park,</p> |
38 | <p>is he suddenly unable to enjoy the french fries<br />he gets for his fifty percent off? I’d like to think<br />that he takes Ronald off like a shirt, hangs him</p> | 39 | <p>is he suddenly unable to enjoy the french fries<br />he gets for his fifty percent off? I’d like to think<br />that he takes Ronald off like a shirt, hangs him</p> |
39 | <p>in a closet where he breathes darkly in the musk.<br />I’d like to believe that we are able to slough off selves<br />like old skin and still retain some base self.</p> | 40 | <p>in a closet where he breathes darkly in the musk.<br />I’d like to believe that we are able to slough off selves<br />like old skin and still retain some base self.</p> |
40 | <p>Of course we all know this is not what happens.<br />The Ronald leering at women drunkenly is the same who<br />the next day kicks at a ball the size of a head.</p> | 41 | <p>Of course we all know this is not what happens.<br />The Ronald leering at women drunkenly is the same who<br />the next day kicks at a ball the size of a head.</p> |
41 | <p>He is the same that hugs his children at night,<br />who has sex with his wife on the weekends when they’re<br />not so tired to make it work, who smiles holding</p> | 42 | <p>He is the same that hugs his children at night,<br />who has sex with his wife on the weekends when they’re<br />not so tired to make it work, who smiles holding</p> |
42 | <p>a basket of fries in front of a field. He cannot<br />take off the facepaint or the <a href="roughgloves.html">yellow gloves</a>. They are<br />stuck to him like so many feathers with the tar</p> | 43 | <p>a basket of fries in front of a field. He cannot<br />take off the facepaint or the <a href="roughgloves.html">yellow gloves</a>. They are<br />stuck to him like so many feathers with the tar</p> |
43 | <p>of his everyday associations. His plight is that<br />of everyone’s—we are what we do who we are.</p> | 44 | <p>of his everyday associations. His plight is that<br />of everyone’s—we are what we do who we are.</p> |
44 | </section> | 45 | </section> |
46 | </article> | ||
45 | 47 | ||
46 | <nav> | 48 | <nav> |
47 | <a class="prevlink" href="roughgloves.html"> | 49 | <a class="prevlink" href="roughgloves.html" |
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48 | Rough gloves | 51 | Rough gloves |
49 | </a> | 52 | </a> |
50 | <a href="#" id="lozenge" title="Random page"> ◊ </a> | 53 | <a href="#" id="lozenge" title="Random page"> ◊ </a> |
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54 | </nav> | 58 | </nav> |
55 | </body> | 59 | </body> |