Later still—at the crisis center, I will take a workshop on speaking to people exhibiting suicidal ideation...The problem with the helpline is that people are calling about things no one can help them with.
-- Narrator ("Last Night")

Importance: The narrator of "Last Night" volunteers at a women's crisis center, a position for which she is well-suited because of her own history of mental health struggles. However, she realizes the limitations inherent in the crisis center's work because of her personal experience. For instance, she knows that asking someone, "What's one small thing you could do today to better your life" (10) is a relatively pointless exercise if the woman she is speaking to has no idea how to answer it.

...when he died stretched out in the grass I had thought my life was over, but that didn't turn out to be right at all; rather the life I'd had was consumed by...
-- Narrator ("Slumberland")