an hour of talk with every reply erased · S4

The scene is a transcript of Ennet House rendered with the counselor's every reply cut out, so that we hear only the residents, each sealed in a private idiom, addressing a listener who never once speaks on the page. The form is the meaning: a dozen monologues and not one exchange, a woman's plea about where she is supposed to go answered by silence, a queue of the unheard that ends on yet another person beginning "First just let me say one thing." Everyone is talking; no one, in the record, is talked back to. Landed here on the one-sided-transcript form; the Program content and craving-koans are addiction-recovery's, the hang-yourself drop-in depression's. [sweep · shared-ground addiction-recovery]