From ecda49e0b20ad3bd52449356dccf2f8095ecfb70 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Case Duckworth Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 21:49:45 -0700 Subject: Flatten directory structure All content files (*.txt, *.html, *.river) are now in /. I did this to simplify the compilation step, and to make linking easier. I'm still thinking about whether I should move the contents of js/, img/, and lua/ into /, or into an 'assets' folder of some sort. We'll see. --- ronaldmcdonald.txt | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 50 insertions(+) create mode 100644 ronaldmcdonald.txt (limited to 'ronaldmcdonald.txt') diff --git a/ronaldmcdonald.txt b/ronaldmcdonald.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..63ec87a --- /dev/null +++ b/ronaldmcdonald.txt @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +--- +title: Ronald McDonald +id: ronaldmcdonald +genre: verse + +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