Dew Drop In April 2024.2025 Poems

April 4 TGIIF Closes

April 4 TGIIF Closes

TGIF has closed
Part of the changing
Restaurant environment.

Many people are not going out
As much as before.
Just too expensive
People are hunkering down.

Not feeling social
Apprehensive, scared,

Fearing the return of stagflation
High inflation, high unemployment
Political and economic chaos.

As the worldwide trade war begins,
The highest tariff rates in over 100 years
Trading partners vowed to retaliate.

DOGE chainsaw slashing
Of the Federal government and programs,
Mass federal government layoffs.

AI taking over jobs
Robot workers everywhere.

Mass deportations
Stock market tanking
Begins to take effect

Exhausted Americans
Working too hard
Staying home for now

Many other chains
Are closing

Fast food chains
High-end places
And ethnic food restaurants
Are doing okay