Michael Ramel The Primordial Poet Poet Tail-rhyme

Notes About The Poem

Some of the words are polysemous. Meaning they are words that have two or more meanings.

"You know that sometimes words have two meanings" Excerpt from "Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zeppelin

Matin Luther: [Latin]: “Pecca fortiter sed fortius fide et gaude in Christo” [English]: Be a sinner and sin boldly, but believe and rejoice in Christ even more boldly” (Private letter to Philip Melanchthon, 8/1/1521)

“I know it’s everybody’s sin; you have to lose to learn how to win” Excerpt from "Dream On" by Areosmith

Fustigate: to beat with a cudgel (stick). i.e.The Caning of Charles Sumner (1856)

Amelioration: the act of making a bad or unpleasant situation better

Elmer Middlewood is a fictional Christ-like character. An amalgamation of Elmer Gantry, a Chistian life of struggle in the middle of the old and new man, and the Middle Incondite Cross of wood.

C H _ _ C H (What's missing?) U R 

The Fustigation of Elmer Middlewood

With fustigation to amelioration
We are led by The Law to The Gospel
And in turn The Gospel demands we keep The Law
No epistle of straw, there’s room in the hostel
(Because God’s style to the world is hostile)

We are led by the Spirit
To learn to endear it
Endear what?  Is a sinful recitation 
Learning to serve others in convocation
(God calls us and overhauls us 
Whether one by one and together)

How do we inherit eternal life?
By loving our neighbor as serving kin
Who is our neighbor?
The one without (as in not having and not within)

The fustigation of Jesus Christ
Begs our amelioration of a fustigated life
And if a cruciform life is led
There must be blood, sweat and tears shed in stead 
(Or instead of the evil in tow as is led here below)

Life is hard, there’s no doubt about it
Jesus’ words touted and shouted from the Cross
But serendipitously (and graciously) 
When we lose, we don’t count it as loss

Are you willing to look like a hypocrite to the world without?
Are you willing to look at the hypocrite within?
(As He lived and then hung betwixt two of us)
Jesus took on this struggle without committing a sin

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