Daver Austin Poet Etheree

Chains

CHAINS

1940s

“Joe’s”
“Good food”
The sign says
Hole in the wall
All you can call it
Joe and Ethyl – owners
Honest as the day is long
Just plain folks and nothing fancy
Never make the show on Iron Chef
Just looking back this modern day and age

NOW

Chains
Yes    chains!
Big city
Bit city chains
And modern people
Honest folk    all in chains
The chains have run all Joes out
We all clank like Jacob Marley
While the rich eat at the country club
And not at chains – Joes are gone forever

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Carol Sunshine Brown December 9, 2010 at 10:28 AM It is the season to give thanks...I wish to thank you for your support and friendship this past year (2010) Daver. May you and yours have a wonderful Holiday Season and may the New Year (2011) bring you and yours good health, and may your hearts be overflowing with love and happiness. Love and blessings always, Carol

Caroline Cécile Delacroix November 19, 2010 at 4:55 PM Well written Etherees and the nostalgia is felt through the line, with interesting description of today's reality compared to the past's. Thanks for sharing and thank you for your kind comments on my latest. Caroline.

David Smalling November 17, 2010 at 11:20 AM And the times they are changing ... Bob Dylan, and your poem in my heart won't let go. One love

Gert W. Knop November 17, 2010 at 8:21 AM Wow, Daver, you're so right with that! I myself won't go to chains if I got to chose. But here in Saxony (Zittau is the place), Germany, we don't have many chains but small stalls and bistros...Nice Etheree...Gert

Nette Onclaud November 17, 2010 at 12:00 AM dazzling duet of etheree with a succlunet theme to sweeten these... lovely! warmest, nette

Andrea Dietrich November 16, 2010 at 6:37 PM wow, this is one of the best little pairing of etheree I have seen here in a long time. YOu outdid yourself with this set, daver. REALLY good writing! And great topic. LUv, andrea

Robert A. Dufresne November 16, 2010 at 5:09 PM nice double etheree, Daver. Like the way you brought it around and love the Jacob Marley line.. Good one. We still got a couple of Joes around here but it's hard for em to stay in competition. This Etheree of yours could well be said for bakeries also... thanks

James Peranteau November 16, 2010 at 3:27 PM Ya know Daver, this write really hit the spot. I took on a job recently that has me driving an our each way, it's not the drive...it's the...where are the good ol' home town dinners that I remembered, when one travel ing the highways could pull over for a nibble and a one on one with the waitress ! Great write Sir ! much love, james

Debbie Guzzi November 16, 2010 at 2:20 PM yup..re PUB LICK cans........big business the head honcho's the fat cats..yuck! (not your write..very good write!) Light & Love

Dr.Ram Mehta November 16, 2010 at 1:29 PM You have expressed nice memorable thoughts on the places that are fast disappearing, daver

November 16, 2010 at 12:39 PM Says so much about life these days. Leaves me longing for the simpler life again. Everything runs so fast, so big, that that individual people get lost in the shuffle. Good way to make your point. Keep on writing!!! Thank you for your kind comment. Karen

Sara Kendrick November 16, 2010 at 11:18 AM Sad...Those places disappearing slowly but surely..Places like that were good places to eat..We still have the pool room down town..It is not a pool room but a restaurant serves only lunch..A good sloppy joe hamburger and a dressed dog..I am glad that you wrote this one and I am glad that I chose it as one of the ones that I would read this afternoon..I was delighted with the comments that you posted on my work "Joy Of The Different Seasons"

Wilma Neels November 16, 2010 at 9:36 AM This is so true Dave even here in South Africa, those we grew up with has all closed down.. Great write ;) love Wilma

Joshua Harris November 16, 2010 at 8:47 AM Great write on the way we have become a society of chain stores and left the little man behind.

Carolyn Devonshire November 16, 2010 at 8:14 AM The chains have taken over and forced a lot of mom and pop restaurants out of business throughout the country, Daver. Whatever became of the small entrepreneur and his efforts to please customers. Chains don't offer much in terms of customer service. Mass produced messes. Nostalgia reigns in this poem, my friend. Well done! Love, Carolyn

Linda-Marie Sweetheart November 16, 2010 at 7:53 AM Powerful Dave and oh so true in the 'modern' world of killing small businesses and forcing citizens to avail themselves of big chain stores.. awful situation.. u have expressed it very well as your lines capture the emotion..luv.. have a happy day and be blessed with luv..

Poet Destroyer A November 16, 2010 at 7:49 AM Good Morning, Daver! here reading your morning thougts. Well only if you liv in the states its day,,, Keeping up with all them food chains must be tough for some. Enjoyed your double etheree. Have a nice day,..p.d.