Many poet gits!!!!!
git
ɡɪt/
nounBRITISHinformal
an unpleasant or contemptible person.
"that mean old git"
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From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Bill Wootton
Sent: 01 September 2015 22:44
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Subject: Where does a git fit?
In the lexicon of insults,
somewhere between
a klutz and a dipshit?
Usually preceded
by the adjective 'stupid',
ignorance is implicit.
But a particular sort
of twittery earns
gittishness, not merely
unawareness; rather
a deep and obvious
nous lack.
Your standard git
announces himself
(females are unaccountably
excluded from githood)
by doing something
no non-git would be
caught dead doing
or by failing to do what
sensibles manage unthinkably.
If not born a git,
beware: you might yet
make a git of yourself.
bw
Thanks L, for providing the impetus here.
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