Fourth Prayer
EBBA LINDQVIST
TRANSLATED BY JANICE D. SODERLING
Give us today our daily bread.
You ask what we mean?Well, by daily bread we mean ordinary bread
ordinary old-fashioned bread
that doesn’t contain too much
strontium 90and give us not too high a dose of
radioiodine 131in our
breast milkso our infants won’t be
damagedalready before their first birthday.
Can you please make that your will?We ask in this prayer that you allow those heavy clouds charged with nuclear radiation to drift up to the Arctic regions
without damaging any living thing, not the grass, not the herbs,— and relieve us of our charge over the fowl of the air and the fish of the sea.
Deliver us from our dominion over the earth. We seem to have totally lost control.
And that’s a fact.