This is Just to Say by William Carlos Williams

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This is Just to Say

I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold

William Carlos Williams

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Karey Amon (4/19/2008 5:24:00 PM)
I first saw this poem as a plaque on someones kitchen wall some 10 years ago.
I thought then as now, this is so sweet...I would love someone who wrote it.

Charley P (6/18/2007 1:58:00 PM)
Well I think that it doesn't need to be prodded and examined by 'sucker, sheepheaded academics'... I quite like it just as a collection of words. It's sweet somehow.

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