Stench of War

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High above the battlefield glide 

beacons of the departed. 

Airborne flocks do yield 

to the freshly shorn and martyred. 

Smell the dregs of conflict 

as vultures sense this doomed convection. 

For nothing rises but despair:

Our war's taste is their confection.

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