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By Jack Joseph Smith

High Wateh It is a song on the misplaced radio, Just a dial, "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 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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"High Wateh" repeats the radio prayer and the roadside-seaside sighting, with the handwritten dial note making the whole scene feel like a warning about tuning, falling, crawling, and not coming back.

Compared with the earlier version, the title pulls the poem toward danger and vigilance. The prayer sounds less accidental and more desperate, as though the speaker is testing whether any answer still exists. The handwritten 'Just a dial,' intensifies the misplaced-radio frame, while the recurring Sun, Moor, glass, and Satan imagery keeps the world split between revelation and damage.

Claude

High Wateh returns to the misplaced-radio refrain Lord ean you hear me, rewriting 34 as a formal watch piece. The Methodist father delivers his twice-is-when line again.