The Lesson

What She Did

was to give Stan some sheets of paper on which she’d written things Ezra had said. Read these, she said, if you would be like him. These are the sorts of things he would say. And here is how he would say them. She had set him up on the floor and show him how he would stand. This is how he would stand, she had said. This is where he would like while he spoke. I will see you in a week, she said. In a week, we will have our next visit.