From f00d869e4c0e64be6093e4980e62e3c9b9b33cc9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Case Duckworth
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 10:36:44 -0700
Subject: Add links to Elegies; write TODO.txt

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+---
+title: 'Ronald McDonald'
+project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves'
+...
+
+When Ronald McDonald takes off his [striped shirt][], \
+his coveralls, his painted face: when he no longer looks \
+like anyone or anything special, sitting next to women
+
+in bars or standing in the aisle at the grocery, \
+is he no longer Ronald?  Is he no longer happy to kick \
+a soccer ball around with the kids in the park,
+
+is he suddenly unable to enjoy the french fries \
+he gets for his fifty percent off?  I'd like to think \
+that he takes Ronald off like a shirt, hangs him
+
+in a closet where he breathes darkly in the musk.  \
+I'd like to believe that we are able to slough off selves \
+like old skin and still retain some base self.
+
+Of course we all know this is not what happens.  \
+The Ronald leering at women drunkenly is the same who \
+the next day kicks at a ball the size of a head.
+
+He is the same that hugs his children at night, \
+who has sex with his wife on the weekends when they're \
+not so tired to make it work, who smiles holding
+
+a basket of fries in front of a field.  He cannot \
+take off the facepaint or the [yellow gloves][].  They are \
+stuck to him like so many feathers with the tar
+
+of his everyday associations.  His plight is that \
+of everyone's---we are what we do who we are.
+
+[striped shirt]: 12-theoceanoverflowswithcamels.html
+[yellow gloves]: 25-roughgloves.html
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