John Wesley Horton — The Monarch Review
FOR WHOM THE CLOWN SELLS – John Wesley Horton
Tuesday, September 17, 2013 10:49 — 0 Comments
Among the educated, jet-setting class, eating at McDonald’s is like making out with your cousin. You may do it, but you don’t speak of it. Still, the first time I visited Rome, a super-sized effigy of the clown himself looked down on me from a second floor balcony on Via del Corso, the main shopping drag. Adopting the classic contraposto stance, one hand raised, fingertips pressed together as if to draw an invisible curtain, Ronald McDonald inveigled pedestrians, as if to say, “Friends, Romans, countrymen, come and eat here.â€
La Bella Figura – John Wesley Horton
Tuesday, February 12, 2013 13:14 — 0 Comments
A writer should not evaluate her self-worth based on how many “likes†her most recent status update collected on facebook. And yet, I felt satisfied with myself over an update that generated thirty-seven likes in the time it takes to finish a Guinness. I wrote:
The answer isn't poetry, but rather language
- Richard Kenney
