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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
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AI Interpretation
The speaker recalls watchmen who were not paid and tore apart a house on Midway. During the early teen years, the speaker rides past them at another job and introduces themself.
The speaker recalls watching the men and then meeting them. The page gives no account of their response or explanation of the unpaid work.
A single handwritten sentence recalls 'Little watchmen at the house / on Midway, not getting paid &' then 'tearing the place apart', and the speaker later seeing them 'working ano- / ther job' during 'my early teen / years while riding by on my / bike, and there & then introduc- / ing myself'.
The note compresses a small grievance and its aftermath into one run-on memory, moving from unpaid work and damage to a chance meeting years later. The tone is matter-of-fact, and the closing self-introduction leaves the outcome of that meeting unstated.