I had the best brunch this weekend

 

 I have been saving 

You can never have too much donut.

I was told there would be no Dylan

Light breaks where no sun shines;
Where no sea runs, the waters of the heart
Push in their tides;
And, broken ghosts with glow-worms in their heads,
The things of light
File through the flesh where no frosting decks the bones.

A candle between the thighs
Warms youth with seed and burns the seeds of rage;
Where no seed stirs,
The fruit of man unwrinkles in the stars,
Bright as a fig;
Where no wax is, the donut shows its hairs.

Ode to the Donut

I love donuts. I have always loved donuts. Jelly donuts. Boston creme. Bavarian creme. Bear claws. Glazed. Vanilla sprinkled. All of them.

I used to go every Sunday morning to Caputo's bakery and get a dozen jelly donuts for Sunday breakfast. Perfection. We had a few independent donut shops around that would make a much bigger variety. There was one on 9th St and 5th Avenue in Park Slope that I went to for forty years. In our drinking days we would go to the all night Burger King on Fourth Avenue and get a bunch of burgers when we were wasted. Then we would stop at the donut shop and get two dozen. One for the hangover and one to eat on the way home. Man those were delicious greasy donuts.

Sometime in the 1990's you started to see a bunch of Dunkin' Donuts come around. They were the first big chain to open on Court St. Everybody said it was the precursor of big chains coming in to push out the Mom and Pop. They were right. The joint on 9th St closed. Or more accurately became a falafel stand. They became ubiquitous and you saw them all over the place. Well not anymore. They are closing over 450 stores.

These stores are principally in gas stations. Now that sucks because when you are traveling it is always great to see a name you know and trust when you want to get something.  Lots of people out of work and a lot of people without donuts.

I call that a tragedy.

I blame Black Lives Matters. By defunding the police department they are destroying a huge part of the donut shops target demographic. Along with the communist governors closing businesses with the bogus Kung Flu bullshit how can the poor donut survive.

God bless the Donut. Please Jesus preserve it. I can give George Washington and protection from the criminals but please Jesus take the wheel and save our Donuts!

I beg you!