Ken E. like to get killed at the Waltham NA thing
that that Kate girl said Ken E. like to get killed by some son of a bitch last night at that Waltham NA thing and they want somebody to tell Johnette not to make them go back again if they don’t want.
Context
The required nightly meeting glimpsed as a place of actual danger: someone nearly killed at the Waltham NA meeting, and residents who now want permission not to be made to go back. The institution's core discipline — you go to the meetings — collides with the street violence the meetings cannot leave behind, and the machinery of who-tells-whom (tell Johnette) is the House processing the risk it puts its residents into nightly.