Featured poem: The Quiet World by Jeffrey McDaniel. Featured topics: porn star martinis, the economies and limitations of language, French people, what it means to love, uses for AI, and ridiculous advertising emails. 

Poem read with permission from the author. 

Theme song by Allegra Ritchie.

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