A few times a year,
When I was alone,
Number thief came
To steal in my home,
He’d take the math numbers,
Right from my book,
The ones I’d just written,
He was a dishonest crook!
So now let me return,
To the events of that night,
The night I was crying,
Like a new baby might…
I was there in my room,
Math homework in hand
When I heard some loud sounds,
Like drums in a band…

I was really, real scared,
That thief,
He would come,
Just like 9 is the same as
9 x ____