Shake the poet and the beat

When one falls-in, an understudy of the Revolutionary Jesus, life runs against the grain.  I know mine is.  Today I embraced Paul's teachings of "do not return evil for evil, but ever follow that which is good."  He takes after Jesus's cheek-turning solution. This was not some lofty ideal but a transformative solution to ending the cycle of violence.  If a first century Jew struck another on the right cheek (meaning they hit  with their left hand, a dirty  disregard for human dignity since the left hand was used for hygiene) turning the left cheek would have brought an abrupt halt to the cycle of voilence.  The assailant would be forced to face the cheek of human dignity.  Its as if the disciple would be saying, "This cheek is the appropriate cheek to hit."