This week’s This American Life episode focuses on people’s mistakes. After a long piece on cryonics enthusiast Bob Nelson and his early failed attempts, the episode’s Act Two focused on the William Carlos Williams poem, “This is Just to Say.”

The combo of Marketplace reporter Sean Cole and Ira Glass talking about the 12-line poem, its pseudo-sincerity and the reading of student-composed spoofs made for great radio. Closing out the show, TAL contributors read their own spoofs.