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so that

                                     so that
                                     the landmines would become begging bowls
                                     filled with nectar
                                     held aloft from their graves
                                     by the cupped hands of the dead

                                     so that
                                     the one legged children would wrap
                                     their detached limbs in smouldering cheesecloth
                                     and offer them to the starved wolves 
                                     for food

                                     so that   
                                     the cunning hole in the ozone 
                                     would become the mouthless ego
                                     that swallows itself whole

                                     so that