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By Jack Joseph Smith

Oh shit, I turned lost the dial High Watch It is a song on the misplaced radio "Lord can you hear me, when I fall? Lord can you hear me, when I crawl; Lord can you hear me, at all" I saw her sander down to the sea I saw her from a side street, stray across the highway My father is a Methodist, under the earth And when I was old enough He said, "twice is when you don't come back"' There I knew there was alot of glass on the Moor And sence I have seen Satan more than once in the Sun

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A handwritten outburst and lost dial open a half-broken prayer from a misplaced radio, leading through sea, highway, Methodist fatherhood, shattered return, and Satan in the Sun.

The page feels like a station caught between signal and static, which suits its spiritual uncertainty. The handwritten 'I turned / lost the dial' makes the radio image feel literal and compositional at once, as if the poem begins in a failed tuning. The father's warning that "twice is when / you don't come back" gives the speaker a family proverb about risk, while glass on the Moor and Satan in the Sun make the whole landscape feel contaminated.

Claude

Oh shit, the Methodist father line about twiee is when you dor''t come back, glass on the Moon, Satan seen more than once in the Sun. First run.