Prayer

PRAYER

Give us the peace of your hens who flutter with influenza in the barnyard.

Give us the power of the thermometer and of the good executioner who listens to you.

Give us the wisdom that overflows like the thick smoke of your factories the wisdom that shines like the emptiness in the marbles that replace the eyes of the one-eyed.

Give us the clarity of ice in the martini.

Give us the truth of music and the obedience of fruits.

Give us the love of your carnivorous plants that slow love of the turtles that release their eggs then swim in your ocean with their heads stuck in your plastic rings.

—Translation: Lee Gould