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Helicopters of fire
Crash like orgasms
Into the orange city
At dawn

Tanks turn their heads
And search the horizon
Squeaking over green crops

There they lie contorted
Children on the road
Concussed into certain sleep

Across the fields are
The soldiers who know how
To dance arm in arm
Come eve