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2title: Ronald McDonald
3genre: verse
4
5project:
6 title: Elegies for alternate selves
7 css: elegies
8 order: 17
9 prev:
10 title: Rough gloves
11 link: roughgloves
12 next:
13 title: The moon is gone and in its place a mirror
14 link: moongone
15...
16
17When Ronald McDonald takes off his [striped shirt][], \
18his coveralls, his painted face: when he no longer looks \
19like anyone or anything special, sitting next to women
20
21in bars or standing in the aisle at the grocery, \
22is he no longer Ronald? Is he no longer happy to kick \
23a soccer ball around with the kids in the park,
24
25is he suddenly unable to enjoy the french fries \
26he gets for his fifty percent off? I'd like to think \
27that he takes Ronald off like a shirt, hangs him
28
29in a closet where he breathes darkly in the musk. \
30I'd like to believe that we are able to slough off selves \
31like old skin and still retain some base self.
32
33Of course we all know this is not what happens. \
34The Ronald leering at women drunkenly is the same who \
35the next day kicks at a ball the size of a head.
36
37He is the same that hugs his children at night, \
38who has sex with his wife on the weekends when they're \
39not so tired to make it work, who smiles holding
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41a basket of fries in front of a field. He cannot \
42take off the facepaint or the [yellow gloves][]. They are \
43stuck to him like so many feathers with the tar
44
45of his everyday associations. His plight is that \
46of everyone's---we are what we do who we are.
47
48[striped shirt]: theoceanoverflowswithcamels.html
49[yellow gloves]: roughgloves.html