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Ep 16 - Where is the divide between healthy ambition and something more dangerous and foolhardy? Do we need to get to Mars?
In There Are Roughly Zones, Robert Frost explores man's desire to push boundaries with a peach tree as a metaphor. In Polar Bear George Bilgere examines the dividing line between the great wide younder and man's place in the world.
We hold the poems up to the light to see what we can learn about our own ambitions.
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