What is 9x5?

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What, Oh what is nine times five? Where o where is 8 times 3? Do you know how 6 was divided by 2? Will you know just what to do? When summer is over and your brain must take shape. When you head into fifth grade and have to think and do. Plutification, amblimination, number elimision and super poketision. Did I learn anything last year in school? I don't remember?

I had a real hole in my brain for 9x5. I couldn't recall I couldn't remember and time after time they would ask and I would say. 42? 41? could it be? is it 50? NO! Get down and do 10 and 10 and 10 and again and again. I couldn't ever remember. Dad would look me straight in the eye and ask again and again and he thought that I was mocking him, because I knew so much else. But no. I really couldn't guess. I couldn't count on my fingers fast enough. My mind would never get it right. It was a real mental block. It must've taken an entire night to get it through my thick skull. And when I turned 45 I got it.
It was a meeting place for us.
A number we would always feel a kinship for; a know cause, now, in heaven, he knows that I wasn't mocking.
He was right to press and I was right to tell him I didn't know; cause I didn't know.
There was a moment where I felt that we both understood.
I was just stupid, see.
I was just simple minded and the mind is not for cramming junk in.
The mind is for molding.
Where we ere and forgive,
God leaves us there to work it out, you see.
Cause one day years and years and years, the time will come, when we will see eye to eye or spirit to soul or whatever people do, when they realize that they loved eachother and hated eachother, too. And now forgive and grow and give eachother what we've got.
No more beatings no more pushups and 9x5 is....
important? Yep!