Introduction

Doughnuts are an American phenomenon-- a pop culture phenomenon! They're at church, at work, hanging proudly from chuby people's rears everywhere. But who has taken the time to write odes in honor of America's favorite fried pastry? Me, that's who. In fact, I'm dedicating a whole 127 sonnet-long sequence to them, as soon as I finish it. Long live doughnuts!

Doughnut Sonnet No. 25
(Parody of "Happy Ye Leaves" by Edmund Spenser)

Happy I leave with doughnuts in my hands
Which I will eat until my jeans are tight
And do so 'till my corpulence demands
I never, ever take another bite.
O happy day! On which I will not fight
My burning want to dine and binge and graze
On only jelly doughnuts through the night,
Licking the icing, relishing the glaze.
O happy joy! I could do this for days
Or months or years-- perhaps until I die
Which by that time my fatness will amaze,
And in a pile of crullers dead I'll lie.
I'll eat my doughnuts to please me alone,
And eat and eat 'til ev'ry doughnut's gone.

Copyright; Stephanie Scarborough
Email: Sas0301@aol.com