Homework

Bobby sat at the kitchen table
With math book
Pencil and paper (no eraser)
Milk and cookies.
2 times 2 is 4.
3 times 3 is 9.
“Why does it take you two hours
to drive two miles
after you get off work?

4 times 4 is 16.
5 times 5 is 25.
6 times 6
“I don’t care what your sister thinks
about our relationship
and who asked her anyway… you?”

6 times 6 is 36.
7 times 7
“All you do is sit in that damn chair.
LOOK at me when I’m talking!”

Seven
Times 7
Is 49.
Eight
“Don’t yell at me!
Get off your lazy ass
And fix something.
This house is falling apart!”

8
times
8 (drop it on the floor)
(pick it up) is
64.
“Go ahead! Leave!
We’ll see who comes crying back home!”

NINE
TIMES
NINE
IS81
AND10TIMES10IS
“I don’t know why I ever married you!”

100.

“Bobby–
is your homework done yet?”

Almost.