Summary

The phone rings, and Beverly answers it. She has a conversation with her lawyer brother Tyrone, who tells her that he is going to be late for dinner. She berates him for not having come in a day early like she had asked, and then hangs up.

Dayton returns, and after she tells him about Tyrone, she asks him whether he brought the root vegetables she asked for. When he does not seem to understand what she means, she goes into a long speech reminding him that she specifically asked him to buy some root vegetables, that root vegetables are “anything that grows underground” (19), and that she gave him a list. She recalls their conversation on the subject, which led to an argument “about the industrialization of agriculture / and its effects on our concept of what food is supposed to / look like...