sorry if this is a little obscure....

[kaijubaka]

"I am more like Batalus than Demosthenes"

I am more like Batalus than Demosthenes.
I stand and shout at the waves,

Secretly hoping they would cease,
So I could speak to people a continent away.

I move my tongue through a mouthful of pebbles,
spitting them out when my teacher can’t see.

I relax my mouth when speaking to the empty chamber,
Sthuh, sthah, uth, ith, ath.

But when I run, rejected, from Ecclesias,
I look back, and know that I will speak there again.