Biscuits'n Gravy

"Biscuits'n Gravy" (or "Early Morning Poet")

by Geoffrey Allison

Revised

Here's to you, the Bubbas,
Bowl of biscuits'n
Gravy in your lap,
Squinting cowboys
Fighting light fired from
Poetry Foundation's website,
That favored pistol,
Asleep on the arm
Of a mid-century modern
Knock-off design, in case
You sight that troublesome
​Backyard squirrel

Original draft

Here's to you, the Bubbas,
A bowl of biscuits and
Gravy in your lap,
The squinting cowboy
Fighting light fired from the
Poetry Foundation's website
A favorite pistol Asleep on the arm
Of a mid-century modern
Knock-off design, in case
You sight that troublesome
​Backyard squirrel