John Mudge Poet Rhyme

Both Sides Now Humorous Satire

To be sung to the tune of Both Sides Now by Judy Collins

Rows and rows of subtrahends
Repeating decimals without end
Regression lines to mark a trend
	I've looked at numbers that way

But now they only add up wrong
Even though I stayed up all night long
Like missing words in someone's song
	Words that seem to say


	chorus
	I've looked at numbers from both sides now
	From left and right and still somehow
	It's numbers' illusions I recall
	I really don't know numbers at all


Secants, tangents, arc-cosines
It seems like just a game sometimes
What's my number, what's my line?
	I've looked at trig that way.

Now all my graphs have gone awry
I've lost the will to find out why
Perhaps they'll make more sense by 'n' by
	But who am I to say?


	chorus
	I've looked at trig from both sides now
	From up and down and still somehow
	It's  trig's illusions I recall
	I really don't know trig at all




Edited 5/9/2016
Written 7/14/1986

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