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| 2 | title: Ronald McDonald | ||
| 3 | genre: verse | ||
| 4 | |||
| 5 | id: ronaldmcdonald | ||
| 6 | toc: "Ronald McDonald" | ||
| 7 | |||
| 8 | project: | ||
| 9 | title: Elegies for alternate selves | ||
| 10 | class: elegies | ||
| 11 | order: 17 | ||
| 12 | prev: | ||
| 13 | - title: Rough gloves | ||
| 14 | link: roughgloves | ||
| 15 | next: | ||
| 16 | - title: The moon is gone and in its place a mirror | ||
| 17 | link: moongone | ||
| 18 | ... | ||
| 19 | |||
| 20 | | When Ronald McDonald takes off his [striped shirt][], | ||
| 21 | | his coveralls, his painted face: when he no longer looks | ||
| 22 | | like anyone or anything special, sitting next to women | ||
| 23 | |||
| 24 | | in bars or standing in the aisle at the grocery, | ||
| 25 | | is he no longer Ronald? Is he no longer happy to kick | ||
| 26 | | a soccer ball around with the kids in the park, | ||
| 27 | |||
| 28 | | is he suddenly unable to enjoy the french fries | ||
| 29 | | he gets for his fifty percent off? I'd like to think | ||
| 30 | | that he takes Ronald off like a shirt, hangs him | ||
| 31 | |||
| 32 | | in a closet where he breathes darkly in the musk. | ||
| 33 | | I'd like to believe that we are able to slough off selves | ||
| 34 | | like old skin and still retain some base self. | ||
| 35 | |||
| 36 | | Of course we all know this is not what happens. | ||
| 37 | | The Ronald leering at women drunkenly is the same who | ||
| 38 | | the next day kicks at a ball the size of a head. | ||
| 39 | |||
| 40 | | He is the same that hugs his children at night, | ||
| 41 | | who has sex with his wife on the weekends when they're | ||
| 42 | | not so tired to make it work, who smiles holding | ||
| 43 | |||
| 44 | | a basket of fries in front of a field. He cannot | ||
| 45 | | take off the facepaint or the [yellow gloves][]. They are | ||
| 46 | | stuck to him like so many feathers with the tar | ||
| 47 | |||
| 48 | | of his everyday associations. His plight is that | ||
| 49 | | of everyone's---we are what we do who we are. | ||
| 50 | |||
| 51 | [striped shirt]: theoceanoverflowswithcamels.html | ||
| 52 | [yellow gloves]: roughgloves.html | ||