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Let there be war

And the ledger opened

Genesis of the sale

Chapter one: shell casings

Blessed are the contractors

For theirs is the kingdom of blood

Holy writ on a quarterly sheet

Spoken in tongues of lead

Do not kill

Unless it clears customs

Sanctified in soot

Baptized in contracts

Lo

They opened the fifth file

And there was profit

And the sixth

And there was silence

No heaven

No hell

A gospel of cluster bombs

Spoken by burning mouths