Best Gizzard Poems

[ to the tune of We’re off to see the Wizard
from the musical Wizard of Oz ]


If you’ve not had fried gizzard,
you’ve never had southern at all.
The same is true of chicken-fried steak
or vinegar-based cole slaw.
If you’ve never tried hot zucchini bread,
banana pudding, pimento spread,
okra,...

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Death is when you
Are alive in the shadow
Death is when you can
Sit and sing with your ancestors...

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Do lizards have gizzards?
Do wizards have craws?
Are parakeets Paracletes
Exempt from laws?

I need to know how
I kneaded dough now 
To disavow middlebrow
Hear the cow bow-a-wow....

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