Donuts are my favorite food group, and Springfield is a great place to live if you love a good donut. One of the poems in This is My Springfield pays tribute to the abundance of places who fashion the heavenly pastries. Tyler Heckman, a choral conducting graduate student at Missouri State University, arranged the poem into this brilliant piece which made its debut Saturday night. The original poem is posted, followed by a link to the performance.
Donut Mecca
St. George’s
carefully crafted in
wee morning hours
by donut fairies
two double chocolate
lifelong favorite
Hurts Donut
open 25 hours a day
eight days a week
avoid the October clown
chocolate old fashioned
with key lime icing
or S’mores
Krispy Kreme
melt in your mouth
piping hot glazed
powdered sugar
with chocolate-kreme
chocolate iced
with white-kreme
Dunkin Donuts
Daylight Donuts
Donut Time
Gold-N-Glaze
It takes a wealth
of donut shops to provide
ample donuts
for all the churches.
