As sometimes they did not understand what he said
in my childhood they tried to improve
the way he spoke
with a pencil in my mouth, then I knew
that stuttering Demosthenes before
he had healed by putting stones in his mouth
and talking in front of the mirror. This is how it came to be
Greece's greatest speaker. (He never wanted to be a speaker).
I improved little with the pencil and out of fear
to the medieval myth of the stone of madness I did not follow
that example: a safe stone
was the one that Estomba got into his head
and she confused him. George Steiner quoting
a heretical tradition of the Kabbalah said
that one day the words
they will rebel from the meaning and be
"Only themselves, and like dead stones
in our mouths ”. That day Humpty Dumpty
when pronouncing
he won't know what he says.