From a placemat at Denny's

Tying It All Together

    (On a placemat at Denny’s)

            The world looks better

            Through a great cup!

A great day deserves

A great cup of coffee.

Denny’s is all about great days

We freshly brew a special blend

Of premium roasted beans

To create a bolder, richer

More satisfying morning

Than ever before

Darker, deeper, and always

Steaming hot.  Mmmm!

A cup of Denny’s Breakfast Roast

Ties your whole day together®

Orchestrate the trees

Master the stars

The world in 5 key points

At Denny’s

Get the humor of

Tragedies and cry

In the comedies

Through a great cup

Tear up child.  Weep

Obliviously.  No need

To be vigilant

Than ever before

Become kindling

Smolder, flames

Of a controlled burn

With a great cup of coffee

Ice of depression:

Crack free of me

Let my bones thaw

Darker, deeper, and always

At Denny's, America's favorite restaurant

At Denny’s, America’s Favorite Restaurant®

Grading essays; french fries

Late, Heinz joins me at my booth

Ladies, careful as surgery

Scootch into theirs.  Voices near eighty

Their make-up, fragrant

Raise shields of colorful dishes

Glossy as lipstick, in Denny’s

America’s favorite restaurant

By windows large as maps

Worlds away.  La familia:

Baby hispanica, pigtails

Takes smiles from the ladies

Her mother, father

The picture of struggle

She is expecting, sullen

He wears a work-worn stare

His mother and father still

Sit by fires in a smoky valley

Considering America on TV

And glossy restaurant chains

Their chiseled Aztecan boy

Wrought with macho

Steak knifes his comida

Like the pics in la carta

Silk spice pie, Silk

Road caravans arrive

And camels breathe hot
In Denny’s parking lot

Diaspora of hungry planet
Unites at Denny’s to eat
Together from whence
We came.  Olduvai, the caves

Lascaux.  Gladness evolves

Onto faces in hijab as waitress
Leans desserts across an oblong
Earth and all hear the soundtrack