this_is_just_to_say William Carlos Williams 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 020926 ... squint i had to. read this. in school. i wondered why. 020926 ... werewolf think about plums for a second. think about what an apology should be. think about the pleasure described here. or the line so cold and so sweet. or even the disjointed way the lines move on, as if in each moment the larger context was momentarily forgotten. this was for a long time my favorite poem. 020926 ... werewolf oh and the line and which you were probably saving for breakfast. very predmeditated. so much is said in a personal note. worlds of implicit understanding. like poetry. 020926 ... bravo (im serious) mr wolf: you should be a professor. 020926 ... werewolf don't encourage me. i'll go on. the way the speaker in the poem, takes these plums which were not the speakers own plan, takes the plan of another as a gift. the theivery involved in love. haha... 020926 ... !! - i wish i had a prof like you 020926 ... university of wolves i now grant you a ph.d 020926 ... werewolf what's that taste like? 020926 ... jane when i read it there was also something else: if he was really sorry, why would he be describing how the plums tasted in such detail? 020927 ... *nat* my feet hurt 020928 ... u24 jane; to excuse himself? explaining the greatness of the temptation. 040722 ... r_r . 100420 ... distant I'm sorry My life ended up different than I ever imagined but I've never forgotten you. I hope you are happy - no, overjoyed in your life. You deserve it. 100420 ... fghio fghio 101114 ... shpaaaaaaaaaaaa shpaaaaaaaaaaaa 110228 what's it to you? who go blather from