The Wrestler's Cruel Study

By Stephen Dobyns

Enjoyable and puns mingle with bold make-believe. Larger-than-life characters play out the an important human questions: How can we stay? How can we deal with our demons?

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We depress him. yet Jesus got us together with his personal invaluable blood and gave us to the nice God. And he desires us to aid him loose the spirit. and also you recognize what that implies? ” there's a pause whereas Michael thinks what this would suggest after which all 5 Mars Boys shout in unison: “No extra fucking! ” “Not despite condoms? ” asks Michael. “Not ever. merely the fuckin Vals think in condoms. We hate the Vals. We kill them! ” “But isn’t killing improper? ” asks Michael. “There you pass again,” says Billy Pontus. “Right, incorrect, solid, undesirable, justice, injustice—these are the tips that the simply God makes use of to maintain you tied in knots. You gotta say no to the full package. Perpetual abstinence is the place it’s at! ” “It sounds like a unusual system,” says Michael. “It used to be the simply God that invented it,” says Billy Pontus, reassembling his pistol, which has black electrician’s tape wrapped round the butt. “Can you think how silly he must’ve been to invent whatever like sticking your weenie right into a bacteria-ridden gap? Then to be born outta that gap, similar to coming outta a sewer? We gotta positioned a cease to that. It’s now not fresh and it fucks up the sunshine. It dilutes the facility of the soul! ” “Wasn’t Jesus born like that? ” asks Michael. “That’s what the Toots say, yet it’s a lie,” solutions Billy Pontus. “Jesus sprang outta the mind of the nice God. the great God had a full of life sturdy notion and that used to be Jesus. He popped into the air like a dancer outta a birthday cake. Doesn’t that make extra experience than weenies in a gap? ” “The clever thing,” says the guy on Michael’s left, who has brought himself as Frankie Pontus, “would be to have them surgically got rid of. That’s what Origen did. That’s what a lotta them did, all these Essenes and fans of Attis. Lord is aware, we received these fogeys too. New York’s an important position. they simply lopped it off. yet to me castration’s only a crutch. You gotta say no along with your middle. Say No to Pussy. That’s the place it’s at. ” “You see,” says Billy Pontus, sliding a clip of bullets into the butt of the pistol, “it’s lust that retains the realm going and imprisons the spirit. Lust retains the realm within the palms of the simply God. Like we’re his vibrator toy. We’re his immense dildo! ” “Don’t you think that it would be greater to chop it off? ” asks the driving force, Louie Pontus. “I continue having those goals. ” “We already been via that! ” says the guy subsequent to him. “I don’t know,” says Charlie Pontus, who's driving shotgun, “if it have been simply got rid of altogether, then probably it wouldn’t be this type of distraction. love it nags, guy. It whines at me. ” “You gotta say no! ” says Billy Pontus. “Unless the choice comes outta your center, it’s now not the genuine factor. ” “Sometimes I simply wanta slice it off,” says Charlie Pontus. “Me too,” says the motive force. “I wanna provide it the outdated heave ho! I’m bored with being powerful. occasionally i believe I’m too susceptible to be robust! ” Billy Pontus leans ahead and faucets the driving force at the again of the top together with his pistol. the automobile swerves. “Man, you recognize what occurs to heretics? an analogous fuckin factor that’s approximately to occur to the Toots.

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