A chrome gearshift knob stands beside a dark seatbelt buckle and a curved golden liquid trail on black ground.

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Dane Cook

Hello. I'm a car. Gasoline makes me run. Backseat. Trunk space. Hello. Let's go for a ride. Oil is my blood. Seat belts. Radio knobs.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker gives a car a voice, mixing greetings with a list of parts and functions. Calling oil its blood briefly turns machinery into a body. The broken sequence makes an ordinary vehicle sound like a character introducing itself with a very limited vocabulary.

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