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By Jack Joseph Smith

The Carrage Your walking down the road, and peaked out of tree some guy say, "hey are you afraid of me," and you keep on walking The carrage comes, and you don't stop it You wait "Hey, are you afraid of me" You have to listen "Well, do you want to go?" It is a part of both The carrage forgot your shodow, went throughout the medow and the village and turned back against its last fork Coming around again it dosen't dangle This a coachmen ahead of two high horces The lingering is not possible The wonderment of the two heaves or princes, whichever they may be, considering opisites, as well as the same, have their carrage in the nut cracked, this page witnessed by an arrow, objectively of course, as these man distinctively bull rack shot themselves, for th carrage had likely come around to carry, while that was left with the coachmen, so giving was a kind of grazing About time and Terry

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GPT

A roadside speaker faces a returning carriage and questions of fear, invitation and being carried.

The carriage returns through meadow and village while the addressed person walks, waits and listens. The handwritten About time and Terry follows the account of giving as grazing. The source's carrage spelling and fragmented syntax remain in the transcript.

Claude

'The Carrage' addresses someone walking down a road when 'some guy say, "hey are you afraid of me,"' and a carriage comes that 'you don't stop'. The carriage goes 'throughout the / medow and the village', returns with 'a coachmen ahead of two high horces', and the page ends in tangled lines about 'two heaves or princes' before 'giving / was a kind of grazing', followed by the handwritten 'About time and Terry'.

The poem starts as a small roadside scene of threat and waiting, then turns into looping, riddling syntax that resists a single reading. The repeated question 'are you afraid of me' and the returning carriage give it a dreamlike structure. The handwritten last line reads like a dedication or a note added after the fact.