This is Just to Say (1934)

BY WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS

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

Williams, William Carlos. “This Is Just to Say by William Carlos Williams.” Poetry Foundation, 15 June 2020, http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56159/this-is-just-to-say.

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