Forty, With Interest

Borrowed Light

A dark-feathered Blue Andalusian rooster in a navy three-piece suit seated at a glass-topped desk in a corner office at dusk, a brass desk lamp casting warm light on a stack of contracts, city lights glowing through floor-to-ceiling windows behind him

He had always preferred the word 'leverage' to 'debt.' One suggested architecture; the other, a leaning building. The papers required six signatures and a silence that, in certain boardrooms, passes for conviction.

28 March 2026

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