DDCPoetry

Poem found here:   "Smartmouth and the Mysteries" by James Malone Smith This poem has a mixture of couplets and singular lines.  But what intrigues me with this poem is how the religious references play into the poem and the perspective, first person, applies such religious icons to the speaker. "Year upon year I know less and less / about time.  It gits like nobody's business,"  Note how the first line depends on the enjambment.  How the line expresses an overall lack of knowledge to a specific source, time.   But the following made me think of what "gits" mean.   Maybe it's more of a colloquial term depending on the speaker, or perhaps, just forced perspective from the overall theoretical intro line.  The focus, in the end, is back to the speaker. "though I suspicion it is not.  Verily, / I am content with dust snug in corners. / I wander around scroungy as John the Baptist "  First, the suspicion line feels out of place grammatically,...