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By Jack Joseph Smith

It Was all Hindu Explidid among the stars is first we are blinded strongest so the least of us is a history in footsteps So we were sholders and poets in our own foray Even and in the alley with Genet; to be young,, to fight for your wit, to loss your family, to worry less about war than sorrow I was all about Hindu One hundrend years hence I could even try to be gay; but then truth is that which is so The farmer, the logger the steel worker, the man with iron on his back over the bridge I thought of him, the man at the end of the curved and slapped concrete,, in the Hollywood hills, way down along the Mosque A Studio Fuller than fuller, a dream come true

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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.'

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'It Was all Hindu' opens on a cosmic flash - 'Explidid among the stars is first we are blinded' (with handwritten 'strongest') - and proposes that 'the least of us is a history in footsteps'. Youth is cast in Genet's company: 'to be young,, / to fight for your wit, to loss your family, / to worry less about war than sorrow'. The page then grounds its myth in labor - 'The farmer, the logger the steel worker, / the man with iron on his back over the bridge' - and travels 'in the Hollywood / hills, way down along the Mosque' to a handwritten 'A Studio', 'Fuller than fuller, / a dream come true'. Source oddities ('Explidid', 'sholders', 'hundrend') are scan-supported and preserved.