As part of the second annual Donut Summit yesterday at Elysian Park, we continued in the tradition of fine pastry-inspired wordsmithing in the form of haiku and limerick. With more than a baker’s dozen of submissions to the contest, Donut Summit attendees had ample opportunity to savor each other’s images and rhymes. We asked for a show of applause to select from the top three submissions (two haiku and a limerick), and a the limerick entitled The Babysitter by James P won out by just a few confetti-colored sprinkles. Click past the jump for a taste of this delicious fritter.
I once had a cute babysitter
Whose perfume smelled just like apple fritter
She came over one day
While my folks were away
And she smelled so delicious I bit her.
Congratulations to James, and thanks to our runners-up and all other poetry contributors.
It was an honor to participate, and a great surprise to win! I will forever cherish my own personal Jesus clock. Donut summit was an awesome experience and it was great meeting everyone!
By the way, you should post the runner-up haikus–they were really good. I think I only won because I had my extended family there to cheer for me.
Yeah I wish I would’ve grabbed their poems, but they’re lost now :-(
It’s definitely nice that you brought family though – bringing in visitors from Agoura Hills, San Francisco, and Orange County, you earned your trophy ;-)
An entourage is a good thing.
Congratulations to JP from the OCJH Crew!