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By Jack Joseph Smith

Only Jesus and Simom Ashiku: have ever seer anything unless they saw it twicec You lost your way Hurfry back The carnyon:cries for you ; When it is gone : Dust across the sun A cut off Moon No water now Then yo go The road has always been red dog” If you ever went anywhere I) crossed the sand and stopped One more time How wild it is If you can’t pull it off

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Jesus and Simon Ashiku stand as rare witnesses in a waterless red-dog landscape where the lost are urged back before canyon, dust, and moon-cut abandonment.

Simon Ashiku is placed beside Jesus as one of the few who has truly seen, but even seeing seems to require a second look. The canyon crying, dust across the sun, cut-off moon, and missing water make the terrain feel apocalyptic and intimate at once. Crossing the sand and stopping one more time suggests that wildness is not a destination but a test of whether anyone can actually carry it off.

Claude

'Only Jesus and Simom Ashiku have ever seen anything unless they saw it twice.' Lost your way, hurry back; canyon cries; cut-off moon, dust across the sun; 'the road has always been red dog.'