By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
The speaker recalls riding along a Los Angeles shopping street, exchanging waves and smiles with men, and insisting that they knew the speaker.
The speaker treats the exchanged greetings as recognition and ends by repeating the certainty that the men knew the speaker. The memory does not establish who the men were.
A typed memory of driving 'slow along a shopping street' in Los Angeles: the speaker waves at 'guys hanging out', they wave back, and the passage ends 'they knew / me and I know they did...'.
The scene is a small exchange of recognition, held in one long run-on sentence. The raised 'on the left' and the far-right 'back seat' are typed additions whose exact place in the sentence is unsettled.