The Miracle of the Pigs

There are animals that kill themselves.Most often they leap from great heightsknowing full well what might happen.Ten years back, in the Alps, two dozencows fell into a valley of rocks. Not allat once, but one by one over the courseof three days. The first went downand the others, like little sheep, followed.The townspeople guessedthem thunderstruck or spookedby larger threats. Tame, they belongedto a farmer, noted by the bells aroundtheir necks.   Because nothingcould reach them, their bodieswere lifted by helicopter, for feartheir passing would poison the nearbysprings.

    In Matthew, two men or one man      that was many, a demoniac, pleaded  with Jesus not to rid them before the time.      To put their madness into the pigs.  And at once, the one man that was many      was back in his right mind. The twothousand pigs drowned   themselves    in the water below.   In Matthew,  the townspeople want Jesus to leave. Abyssmeans without depth. Gorge means the valley,      the throat, to eat oneself to death.