- Joe's been spending every morning with the Walkers, and Lennie walks downstairs to find everyone in a cheerful mood.
- When her phone buzzes, it's Toby.
- To keep everyone from wondering why she's ignoring her phone, Lennie asks Joe if he wants to duet with her.
- Joe starts playing. Lennie thinks about everything that's been building up inside her, the mystery and the grief, and blows into the clarinet for a while, making a terrible sound that makes the neighbors' dogs bark.
- The next poem is almost like prose. The first half describes all the decisions Lennie had to make for the funeral, like editing the obituary.
- But when Lennie saw Bailey's body in the casket, she snapped and started shaking her sister until Uncle Big carried her down to the river so they could cry.