Wras’lin’
Why would God bother to wrestle with a man?
Who is man that God would not flick him aside like a flea?
In wrestling with God, man wins a blessing.
Man was made in the image of God. Does man make God in the image of man?
Jacob wrestles with God and wins a blessing and an injured thigh.
Dickinson wrestles with God and wins another kind of Loneliness.
Captain Ahab wrestles the White Whale to the death, but the whale wins.
Herr Nietzsche wrestles God to the death and wins insanity.
God wriggles loose and rises to life in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, USA.
Why do we keep killing the one who cannot die?
The students of Allegheny wrestle with the killers of God and win pronouncements.
The killers of God wrestle back and win moments.
God sighs for the sadness that his children do not get along. In due time
God slaps War to the Mat, then Patriotism, then Religion, then the Devil himself.
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