Read this phrase from Allen Ginsberg’s "A Supermarket in California." I wandered in and out of the brilliant stacks of cans following you, and followed in my imagination by the store detective. From this excerpt, it can best be inferred that the speaker is

The speaker imagines a store detective following him as he wanders among the cans, which suggests he feels watched and suspects he might be seen as a shoplifter. The phrase “in my imagination” shows that the detective may not actually be following him, so choice B is about the speaker’s imagined sense of being closely watched.

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