The Garden Argument
by L. Roe

OLD MAN: The roses know.

YOUNG WOMAN: The roses know nothing. They are dramatic leaves.

OLD MAN: You have never trusted a garden.

YOUNG WOMAN: A garden is mud with ambitions.

OLD MAN: And yet you came.

YOUNG WOMAN: I came for the ladder.

OLD MAN: The ladder is listening.

(The ladder falls.)

YOUNG WOMAN: Your garden is rude.

OLD MAN: It is honest.
