This stemmed from taking the last donut from the box of Tim Horton's, showing it to A-M, and intoning "That's my last dutchie" and her replying, "No, it's an apple fritter". This is a strange household. Anne Lament for a Donut copyright 2000 by Anne Fraser _________ That's my last dutchie sitting on the plate Looking as if it were uneaten. I call That donut a wonder now; Tim Horton's hands Worked busily an hour, and there it sits. Wilt please you to sit and look at it? I said "Tim Horton" by design, for never formed Coffee Time that frittered countenance, The depth and passion of its sugared glaze, But to myself they turned (since none puts by the Timbits box I have oped for you, but I) And seemed as they would ask me, if they durst, How such a glaze came there, so, not the first Are you to turn and ask thus. Sir, t'was not An invite to eat that donut. _____ A dutchie is a heavier fried donut, one of those squarish ones of the fritter variety, with raisins. Tim Hortons (no apostrophe) is a chain of Canadian donut shops named after a hockey star. Coffee Time is a rival donut chain. Timbits are donut holes.