Hard HARD Multiplication

• Tahmid Rahman, Grade 7
• Poetry
• 2013

we were playing the numbers game
with all the maths olympiad people
and we were all stuck on a question
it was a hard multiplication
to figure out
then at last my good friend denny thought of an answer
and i slammed my hand on the table with a thud
he continued writing on the still waiting white board
and we watched and looked for mistakes
but found none until he added 6
to create his final answer
i then jumped up and ran to the board
and shouted happily with spice
"you used six twice"
and he (almost) wept on the floor
as i stood up in glory