The Zero Product Property (Or, Why Most Roots of Unity Are Complex Numbers)

There’s one way two real

Numbers multiply

To zero—that’s if

And only if one

Of them is zero.

Sit and soak this in.

Countable substance

Can’t be nullified

By repetition

Unless there’s nothing

There to begin with,

No units of X.

None of X stays none,

However many

Nones of X one gets.

None of anything

Stays equivalent

To none of that thing

No matter how one

Lines up many nones.

Not is the magic

Of is, its absence

Key among the real.

Set none as one real;

Set fox among hens.