William Carlos Williams

This Is Just To Say

BY WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMSI 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

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    Elizabeth Delmonico

    I’ve loved this poem for half a century.

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