Fernando Delgadillo
Miscellaneous
How He Who Ignores Learns
So... Do you know or don't you know?
-I said impatiently-.
If you know you and forget it,
how do you know that you knew it?
And otherwise, if you don't know...
what will you teach the audience?
br/>He looked at me with a doubt
deeper than mine
and asked me:
-What did he say? How do you say you were saying?
And then to the scoundrel
I said in a smug tone:
-He will forget things
because he didn't know them.
The people waited expectantly,
and ignoring my offensive he quoted
lowering his voice and reflexively:
-I only know that I know nothing...
I only know that I know nothing...
But if someone knows less,
it can always be you.
But let me tell you
that no one was born knowing
and that it is a question to keep learning
and for me to explain to you...
So you keep silent
and don't interrupt with your obistes.
He told me paternalistically
and in a sly way,
like someone who winks his eye
another person's accomplice.
But I wasn't fooled
his professorial ways
and I plotted to unmask him
even if I lost ten hours.
For his part, the mountebank
was tuning a guitar
that he would probably play skillfully,
and I said to myself:
'Just wait for let the madman be neglected.
But he began a song
sad, languid and mournful,
which had the name:
'The insect, the bird...
-and I thought it was very long
when he added-
... Ah! and the man '.
And he sentenced:
-Know what happens...
although sometimes it surprises you

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