the basement
sub-floor · unnumbered · the door was always unlocked. that was the point of the door.
warning — the record does not come down here. these are the residents,
unsupervised. reading a lot of this is said to do something. stay near the stairs.
a note, taped upstairs, in the custodian's hand: "the basement keeps its own
records. i don't read them. i want that on file more than i want anything on
file. if you go down, go kindly. they don't know you can hear them. — c."
listening for sessions—