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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 bout tie An / TE DIY

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GPT

An eerie roadside encounter with a returning carriage turns invitation, fear, and transport into a fable about being carried beyond one's own will.

The carriage keeps returning as a figure of invitation and fear: the speaker walks, waits, listens, and watches it circle back through village and meadow. Its misspelled, fairy-tale machinery turns travel into a strange consent problem, ending with a handwritten tag that feels like belated recognition.

Claude

The returning carriage at the roadside transforms a realistic encounter into a fable about consent and transport — being carried somewhere you did not choose to go by a vehicle you did not summon.