THEY look like empty coffins now.

Some two months ago, they were planters, lining up a stretch of A. Soriano Avenue (formerly Aduana Street) from the Maestranza to Fort Santiago, each holding two big flower pots that each in turn was a home to a perennial plant, leaves green and slightly swaying in the summer breeze.

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