From 9fce418b46c9f0894f429384ef9e3dabaeffbeb4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Case Duckworth Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 16:36:17 -0700 Subject: Change file hierarchy and rewrite makefile - File hierarchy is now as follows: - / - appendix/ < appendix source files - backlinks/ < backlink sources & builds - hapax/ < *.hapax source files - scripts/ < scripts, like *.js, *.hs, etc. - templates/ < templates for outputs - text/ < source files - trunk/ < assets, like css, images, heads, etc. - index.html - *.html - Makefile --- ronaldmcdonald.txt | 52 ---------------------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 52 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 ronaldmcdonald.txt (limited to 'ronaldmcdonald.txt') diff --git a/ronaldmcdonald.txt b/ronaldmcdonald.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 87b57c1..0000000 --- a/ronaldmcdonald.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,52 +0,0 @@ ---- -title: Ronald McDonald -genre: verse - -id: ronaldmcdonald -toc: "Ronald McDonald" - -project: - title: Elegies for alternate selves - class: 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