That was a great dinner.

So great.

Wait, where'd you park the car?

Oh, the one I just sold a Carvana.

What?

When did you do that?

When you were still looking at the menu?

I went on Carvana.com and all I had to do was under the license plate or VIN, answer a few questions, and got a real offer in seconds.

They picked up the car already?

No, I parked on the spot. Oh, no wonder you picked up the check. Yeah, about that.

I thought we were going havesies.

Sell your car to Carvana.

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Welcome back to the Daily Poem here on the Close Reeds Podcast Network. I'm David Kern. Today's poem is from Shakespeare. I've read you

plenty of Shakespeare, but that's by design, right? If we're going to read poetry, we need to read plenty of

Shakespeare. Today I'm going to be reading Act 3, Scene 1 of Hamlet.

It is probably the most famous, well, maybe the most famous poem ever written, I suppose.

It is Hamlet's soliloquy, his to be or not to be soliloquy.

You have probably typically thought of these lines as being about performance.

But I wanted to read them today just to think about the language in them.

So I'm not really going to read them in imitation of, say, Kenneth Branagh or Mel Gibson or Lawrence

Olivier or some other hamlet.

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