Joe Turner's Come and Gone by August Wilson

Author:August Wilson [Wilson, August]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2019-08-06T00:00:00+00:00

Scene Three

It is Sunday morning, the next day. The lights come up on the kitchen. SETH sits talking to BYNUM. The breakfast dishes have been cleared away.

SETH: They can’t see that. Neither one of them can see that. Now, how much sense it take to see that? All you got to do is be able to count. One man making ten pots is five men making fifty pots. But they can’t see that. Asked where I’m gonna get my five men. Hell, I can teach anybody how to make a pot. I can teach you. I can take you out there and get you started right now. Inside of two weeks you’d know how to make a pot. All you got to do is want to do it. I can get five men. I ain’t worried about getting no five men.

BERTHA: (calls from the bedroom.) Seth. Come on and get ready now. Reverend Gates ain’t gonna be holding up his sermon ’cause you sitting out there talking.

SETH: Now, you take the boy, Jeremy. What he gonna do after he put in that road? He can’t do nothing but go put in another one somewhere. Now, if he let me show him how to make some pots and pans . . . then he’d have something can’t nobody take away from him. After a while he could get his own tools and go off somewhere and make his own pots and pans. Find him somebody to sell them to. Now, Selig can’t make no pots and pans. He can sell them but he can’t make them. I get me five men with some tools and we’d make him so many pots and pans he’d have to open up a store somewhere. But they can’t see that. Neither Mr. Cohen nor Sam Green.

BERTHA: (Calls from the bedroom.) Seth . . . time be wasting. Best be getting on.

SETH: I’m coming, woman! (To BYNUM.) Want me to sign over the house to borrow five hundred dollars. I ain’t that big a fool. That’s all I got. Sign it over to them and then I won’t have nothing.

(JEREMY enters waving a dollar and carrying his guitar.)

JEREMY: Look here, Mr. Bynum . . . won me another dollar last night down at Seefus! Me and that Mattie Campbell went down there again and I played contest. Ain’t no guitar players down there. Wasn’t even no contest. Say, Mr. Seth, I asked Mattie Campbell if she wanna come by and have Sunday dinner with us. Get some fried chicken.

SETH: It’s gonna cost you twenty-five cents.

JEREMY: That’s alright. I got a whole dollar here. Say Mr. Seth . . . me and Mattie Campbell talked it over last night and she gonna move in with me. If that’s alright with you.

SETH: Your business is your business . . . but it’s gonna cost her a dollar a week for her board. I can’t be feeding nobody for free.

JEREMY: Oh, she know that, Mr. Seth. That’s what I told her, say she’d have to pay for her meals.

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