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1 | <!DOCTYPE html> | 1 | <!DOCTYPE html> |
2 | <!-- Template for compiled 'Autocento' documents --> | 2 | <!-- AUTOCENTO OF THE BREAKFAST TABLE --> |
3 | <!-- vim: fdm=indent --> | ||
3 | <html lang="en"> | 4 | <html lang="en"> |
4 | <head> | 5 | <head> |
5 | <meta charset="utf-8"> | 6 | <meta charset="utf-8"> |
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23 | <!-- <script src="js/external.js"> </script> --> | 24 | <!-- <script src="js/external.js"> </script> --> |
24 | </head> | 25 | </head> |
25 | <body> | 26 | <body> |
27 | |||
28 | <article id="container"> | ||
29 | <header> | ||
30 | <!-- title --> | ||
31 | <h1 class="title">Ronald McDonald</h1> | ||
32 | |||
26 | 33 | ||
27 | <article id="container"> | 34 | </header> |
28 | <header> | ||
29 | <!-- title --> | ||
30 | <h1 class="title">Ronald McDonald</h1> | ||
31 | |||
32 | |||
33 | |||
34 | </header> | ||
35 | |||
36 | <section class="content verse"> | ||
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> | ||
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> | ||
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> | ||
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> | ||
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> | ||
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> | ||
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> | ||
44 | <p>of his everyday associations. His plight is that<br />of everyone’s—we are what we do who we are.</p> | ||
45 | </section> | ||
46 | </article> | ||
47 | 35 | ||
36 | <section class="content verse"> | ||
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> | ||
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> | ||
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> | ||
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> | ||
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> | ||
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> | ||
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> | ||
44 | <p>of his everyday associations. His plight is that<br />of everyone’s—we are what we do who we are.</p> | ||
45 | </section> | ||
46 | </article> | ||
48 | <nav> | 47 | <nav> |
49 | <a class="prevlink" href="roughgloves.html" | 48 | <a class="prevlink" href="roughgloves.html" |
50 | title="Next article in Elegies for alternate selves"> | 49 | title="Next article in Elegies for alternate selves"> |
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56 | The moon is gone and in its place a mirror | 55 | The moon is gone and in its place a mirror |
57 | </a> | 56 | </a> |
58 | </nav> | 57 | </nav> |
59 | </body> | 58 | </body> |
60 | </html> | 59 | </html> |