Michael Ramel Poet Limerick

Notes About The Poem

The poetic form described, where lines a, b, c, d, and f rhyme (at the end of a stanza) while line e does not, is not a traditional, named form. However, this kind of structure is a feature of a modified or imperfect limerick, or maybe a Sestin. 

*A reference to Luke 11:44

Cypress Hill lyric “Insane in the membrane”

Whistling Past the Graveyard

Well it doesn’t take someone from Harvard
To get the metaphor of whistling past the graveyard
As Dr. Luke states it and rather obviously
You walk over an unmarked grave obliviously*
The naturalist walks over The Foundation for reason
In an attempt to ridicule that very Foundation

But why as a naturalistic behaviorist
Would you grind when there’s a mill but no grist
You are borrowing the Christian’s capital (yeah I said it)
The ability to reason, but you don't give God the credit
Reason doesn’t grow on trees 
Do you need more empirical clarification?

Generalizations can’t be seen with binoculars?
See the truth is something unseen or un-ocular 
I don’t say in jest or jocular
Or appeal to Private Monocular 
“We can’t give up God because we have laws of grammar”
See! The nut job Nietzsche gets the frustration

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