Join me and my special guest, Cal, as we read some of my favorite poems about death. While this should be quite the somber episode, it's anything but! With California on fire and the air quality slowly killing my asthmatic self who is waiting on a replacement inhaler, the coughing and horrible jokes should make this an interesting one for any listener - even those scared by the concept of death and facing one's own mortality.

Poems Read:

"Because I Could Not Stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson (1890)

"Death Be Not Proud" by John Donne (1633)

"Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" by Dylan Thomas (1951)

"Ozymandias" by Percy Shelley (1818)

Sonnet 71 by William Shakespeare (1609)

"Out, Out-" by Robert Frost (1916)

"Dulce et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen (1920)

"Do Not Stand at my Grave and Weep" by Mary Elizabeth Frye (1932)

"Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allen Poe (1849)

"When I have Fears That I May Cease to Be" by John Keats (1848)

"The Darkling Thrush" by Thomas Hardy (1900)