I still hear him say slowly, slowly whenever I open a coconut

One Thursday afternoon on a corner in Aldea Zama a man showed me how to open a coconut with a machete, step by step, holding my wrist and saying, slowly, slowly. I have done it forty times since and I still hear him say it. I never asked his name. The corner has a different cart on it now. If you are somewhere else, I have a coconut for you, and ten fingers, which I credit entirely to your teaching.