From 43e2b69dfb0d37cce157ea78a35b47e54c85c7d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Case Duckworth Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2015 12:13:08 -0700 Subject: Fix bad commit / other issues --- ronaldmcdonald.txt | 49 ------------------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 49 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 ronaldmcdonald.txt (limited to 'ronaldmcdonald.txt') diff --git a/ronaldmcdonald.txt b/ronaldmcdonald.txt deleted file mode 100644 index a719ef8..0000000 --- a/ronaldmcdonald.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,49 +0,0 @@ ---- -title: Ronald McDonald -genre: verse - -project: - title: Elegies for alternate selves - css: elegies - order: 17 - prev: - title: Rough gloves - link: roughgloves - next: - title: The moon is gone and in its place a mirror - link: moongone -... - -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]: theoceanoverflowswithcamels.html -[yellow gloves]: roughgloves.html -- cgit 1.4.1-21-gabe81