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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
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AI Interpretation
This page turns 'Hindu' into a marker of cosmic expansion, youth, wit, labor, sexuality, and Hollywood dream life, with handwritten insertions intensifying the page's mythic reach.
The cleaned page makes the movement clearer: cosmic blindness, bodily history, Genet-like youth, war and sorrow, and laboring men all converge on a Hollywood landscape made 'Fuller than fuller.'
It Was all Hindu. Exploded among the stars — first we are blinded. Africa as history in footsteps. Shoulders and poets in our own foray. Even in the alley with Genet — to be young, to fight for your wit, to lose your family, to worry less about war than sorrow. Farmer, logger, steel worker, the man with iron on his back over the ridge.