An E. coli outbreak linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders has led to at least 75 illnesses across 13 states, including one death. —Deidre McPhillips, CNN, 10/25/2024
Still on the menu? Safe to eat?
The Quarter Pounder was never healthy,
but who knew it could be deadly?
So weird—President Trump
had just served fries at Mickey D's—
then people got sick.
A celestial warning, perhaps?
No worries—Ronald McDonald still reigns
across 100 countries, in 40,000 locations.
Except in Russia, where the Golden Arches
displaced the Iron Curtain—first in 1990
in Pushkin Square—where they had to teach
the servers to smile at 38,000 customers
at the grand opening.
Sadly, since 2022, Putin replaced his 800 McCafes
with Vkusno i Tochka—"Simply Delicious!"
But don't worry! If anyone can get
our Russian McDonalds back,
it's former/future President Trump.
Anne Gruner, a former CIA officer, visited the first Russian McDonalds in Pushkin Square in 1990, where the servers were still learning to smile. She is a Pushcart nominee whose poetry has appeared in over a dozen print and on-line publications, including "Amsterdam Quarterly Review," "Beltway Poetry Quarterly," and "Honeyguide Literary Magazine." She was a semi-finalist in the Pangaea Prize for a poetry collection, and her poem "Once Upon a Raven" was selected to be read in Baltimore's Poetry Downtown Festival.
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