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| 12 | <title>Ronald McDonald | Autocento of the breakfast table</title> | 12 | <title>Ronald McDonald | Autocento of the breakfast table</title> |
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| 29 | <h1 class="title">Ronald McDonald</h1> | 28 | <h1 class="title">Ronald McDonald</h1> |
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| 31 | 29 | ||
| 32 | <div class="header-extra"> | ||
| 33 | |||
| 34 | </div> | ||
| 35 | </header> | ||
| 36 | 30 | ||
| 37 | 31 | <div class="header-extra"> | |
| 38 | <section class="content verse"> | ||
| 39 | <p><span class="line">When Ronald McDonald takes off his <a href="theoceanoverflowswithcamels.html">striped shirt</a>,</span><span class="line">his coveralls, his painted face: when he no longer looks</span><span class="line">like anyone or anything special, sitting next to women</span></p> | ||
| 40 | <p><span class="line">in bars or standing in the aisle at the grocery,</span><span class="line">is he no longer Ronald? Is he no longer happy to kick</span><span class="line">a soccer ball around with the kids in the park,</span></p> | ||
| 41 | <p><span class="line">is he suddenly unable to enjoy the french fries</span><span class="line">he gets for his fifty percent off? I’d like to think</span><span class="line">that he takes Ronald off like a shirt, hangs him</span></p> | ||
| 42 | <p><span class="line">in a closet where he breathes darkly in the musk.</span><span class="line">I’d like to believe that we are able to slough off selves</span><span class="line">like old skin and still retain some base self.</span></p> | ||
| 43 | <p><span class="line">Of course we all know this is not what happens.</span><span class="line">The Ronald leering at women drunkenly is the same who</span><span class="line">the next day kicks at a ball the size of a head.</span></p> | ||
| 44 | <p><span class="line">He is the same that hugs his children at night,</span><span class="line">who has sex with his wife on the weekends when they’re</span><span class="line">not so tired to make it work, who smiles holding</span></p> | ||
| 45 | <p><span class="line">a basket of fries in front of a field. He cannot</span><span class="line">take off the facepaint or the <a href="roughgloves.html">yellow gloves</a>. They are</span><span class="line">stuck to him like so many feathers with the tar</span></p> | ||
| 46 | <p><span class="line">of his everyday associations. His plight is that</span><span class="line">of everyone’s—we are what we do who we are.</span></p> | ||
| 47 | </section> | ||
| 48 | </article> | ||
| 49 | <nav> | ||
| 50 | <div class="anchors"> | ||
| 51 | <a href="ronaldmcdonald_backlinks.htm" id="back-link" title="Links to this page"> | ||
| 52 | φ | ||
| 53 | </a> | ||
| 54 | <a href="index.html" id="cover-link" title="To cover">◊</a> | ||
| 55 | <a href="#" id="lozenge" title="ERROR">ξ</a> | ||
| 56 | </div> | ||
| 57 | 32 | ||
| 58 | <a class="prevlink" href="roughgloves.html" | 33 | </div> |
| 59 | title="Previous article in Elegies for alternate selves"> | 34 | </header> |
| 60 | Rough gloves | 35 | |
| 61 | </a> | 36 | |
| 62 | 37 | <section class="content verse"> | |
| 63 | <a class="nextlink" href="moongone.html" | 38 | <p><span class="line">When Ronald McDonald takes off his <a href="theoceanoverflowswithcamels.html">striped shirt</a>,</span><span class="line">his coveralls, his painted face: when he no longer looks</span><span class="line">like anyone or anything special, sitting next to women</span></p> |
| 64 | title="Next article in Elegies for alternate selves"> | 39 | <p><span class="line">in bars or standing in the aisle at the grocery,</span><span class="line">is he no longer Ronald? Is he no longer happy to kick</span><span class="line">a soccer ball around with the kids in the park,</span></p> |
| 65 | The moon is gone and in its place a mirror | 40 | <p><span class="line">is he suddenly unable to enjoy the french fries</span><span class="line">he gets for his fifty percent off? I’d like to think</span><span class="line">that he takes Ronald off like a shirt, hangs him</span></p> |
| 66 | </a> | 41 | <p><span class="line">in a closet where he breathes darkly in the musk.</span><span class="line">I’d like to believe that we are able to slough off selves</span><span class="line">like old skin and still retain some base self.</span></p> |
| 67 | </nav> | 42 | <p><span class="line">Of course we all know this is not what happens.</span><span class="line">The Ronald leering at women drunkenly is the same who</span><span class="line">the next day kicks at a ball the size of a head.</span></p> |
| 43 | <p><span class="line">He is the same that hugs his children at night,</span><span class="line">who has sex with his wife on the weekends when they’re</span><span class="line">not so tired to make it work, who smiles holding</span></p> | ||
| 44 | <p><span class="line">a basket of fries in front of a field. He cannot</span><span class="line">take off the facepaint or the <a href="roughgloves.html">yellow gloves</a>. They are</span><span class="line">stuck to him like so many feathers with the tar</span></p> | ||
| 45 | <p><span class="line">of his everyday associations. His plight is that</span><span class="line">of everyone’s—we are what we do who we are.</span></p> | ||
| 46 | </section> | ||
| 47 | </article> | ||
| 48 | <nav> | ||
| 49 | <div class="anchors"> | ||
| 50 | <a href="backlinks/ronaldmcdonald.html" id="backlinks" title="Links to this page"> | ||
| 51 | φ | ||
| 52 | </a> | ||
| 53 | <a href="index.html" id="coverlink" title="To cover">◊</a> | ||
| 54 | <a href="#" id="randomizelink" title="ERROR">ξ</a> | ||
| 55 | </div> | ||
| 56 | |||
| 57 | <a class="prevlink" href="roughgloves.html" | ||
| 58 | title="Previous article in Elegies for alternate selves"> | ||
| 59 | Rough gloves | ||
| 60 | </a> | ||
| 61 | |||
| 62 | <a class="nextlink" href="moongone.html" | ||
| 63 | title="Next article in Elegies for alternate selves"> | ||
| 64 | The moon is gone and in its place a mirror | ||
| 65 | </a> | ||
| 66 | </nav> | ||
| 68 | 67 | ||
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| 70 | </body> | 68 | </body> |
| 71 | </html> | 69 | </html> |