This Is Just To Say

This is a much anthologized poem by William Carlos Williams, one of the modern greats. This is the kind of poem that sticks with you, or at least with me. I think of it often and feel my own mischievousness.


This Is Just To Say
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