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Rita Rouvalis
Chapman
teaches English at Webster Groves High School, Webster Groves, Missouri. Her
poetry has appeared in The
Jabberwock,
Tar
Wolf Review,
Phantasmagoria,
and Circumference.
For the past ten years, she’s been chief archivist for ETEXT, an Internet
archive of eclectic, non-commercial e-texts.
Rita Rouvalis Chapman
Ode to McDonalds
What has the world come to
when I cannot get a Shamrock Shake
during the first week of March.
There are certain things I depend on.
Some of us serve up more Happy Meals
than Sunday roasts, and yet the family
photo albums lack any evidence of these beautiful
traditional moments in the drive-thru line.
Yes, the buns are so tasteless
you know they are only an edible napkin
keeping the onion bits from sticking
to your fingers.
But the fries are a marvel,
crisping to the touch of teeth and
melting into starch silk on the tongue,
the salt biting the soft parts of the mouth.
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