On today’s episode, Genevieve will have a monstrous, devouring worm, love’s blindness, superficial charity, metaphors for the impermanence of life, solace found in death, controlling, jealous, murderous natures and a meditation on the healing power of poetry.

"The Conqueror Worm" by Edgar Allan Poe, "Love's Blindness" by Alfred Austin, "Holy Thursday" by William Blake, "Summer's Farewell" by Eliza Cook, "Love Not" by Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton, "After Death" by Christina Rossetti, “Consolation” by Robert Louis Stevenson, and "Oh Poetry, oh Rarest Spirit of All" by Arthur Henry Hallam.