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Letters Versus Numbers
by Richard Randolph

I prefer letters to numbers.
Numbers are too much like Inspector Javert-
one way, right or wrong, black or white.
Letters, on the other hand,
are like Jean Valjean,
flexible--but a little shifty, too.
Sometimes a 'G' is hard, for example,
like a growling dog, and that's great.
At other times it's gentle, genial, and generous,
and, at still other times, silence reigns.

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Recent Math versus humanity Poems
Letters Versus Numbers
by Richard Randolph

I prefer letters to numbers.
Numbers are too much like Inspector Javert-
one way, right or wrong, black or white.
Letters, on the other hand,
are like Jean Valjean,
flexible--but a little shifty, too.
Sometimes a 'G' is hard, for example,
like a growling dog, and that's great.
At other times it's gentle, genial, and generous,
and, at still other times, silence reigns.

......

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