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TRANSCRIPT: COUPLES THERAPY SESSION
Participants: Greg & Brenda
Facilitator: Dr. Minerva Fleen, Certified Emotional Rallyologist
Session Theme: "Reconnecting Through Sonic Commitment: GREG & BRENDA AND EWS 'Rally' c60 + Insect Reproductive Strategies"
Dr. Fleen: Thank you both for coming today. Before we get started, I’d like to play a short excerpt from GREG & BRENDA AND EWS “Rally” c60, just to set the tone.
[Cassette warble, feedback throb, distant sound of boots crunching gravel. A low synth drones, mimicking a wind full of intention.]
Greg: (wincing) That’s Side A. That’s when I was still trying. Still showing up.
Brenda: That was before you started forgetting the egg cart every time we argued.
Dr. Fleen: Let’s focus on what hatches, not just what’s laid bare. Speaking of which—did you know the majority of insects hatch from eggs, fertilized within a maternal shell called a chorion?
Greg: (mutters) Wish our marriage had a chorion.
Brenda: It did. It was called “boundaries.” You ate through them like a mealworm.
Dr. Fleen: Brenda, thank you. I hear that you feel…exposed. Vulnerable. Perhaps a bit desiccated emotionally?
Now, Greg—some insects, like the aphid, reproduce parthenogenetically. That means the female doesn’t even need the male for fertilization. Can you see how that might reflect Brenda’s current emotional self-reliance?
Greg: So... I’m the useless male aphid?
Brenda: Not useless. Just… univoltine. One brood of effort a year.
Dr. Fleen: Excellent metaphor. Brenda, are you perhaps seeking a bivoltine or even multivoltine partner? Someone who shows up with fresh intention, seasonally?
Brenda: I’d take even bivoltine at this point. I can’t be the serosa for both of us.
Greg: I don’t know what that means but it sounds crunchy.
Dr. Fleen: The serosa secretes a chitin-rich cuticle to protect the developing self. It’s the commitment membrane—the rally tape that binds potential.
Let’s try an exercise. Greg, tell Brenda:
“I want to be your cuticle. I want to protect the embryo of our second act.”
Greg: (sincerely)
“I want to be your cuticle. I want to protect the embryo of our second act.”
Brenda: (visibly moved)
And I’ll try not to lay our fights in dry dirt anymore. I’ll gestate them… properly.
Dr. Fleen: Beautiful. And remember—some wasps are polyembryonic. One fight can hatch into many resolutions if nurtured carefully.
SESSION END.
Cassette flips to Side B.
Echoes of rally cars in a salt flat.
The sound of someone finally showing up.
Together. In dust.