Two times ten
calls the teacher
20 comes the answer.
The arithmetical tables
from two to sixteen
practised in earnest.
A routine in the school
where recitations of tables,
spelling tests carried significance.
Trained with an eye on perfection
In school, I gained mastery
and never go wrong in either.
The basics were dinned
into the little heads
they stay till one lives.
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