This Is Just To Say | A poem by William Carlos Williams, 1934
Georges Braque, Verre, pommes, couteau [Glass, apples, knife], 1941
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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, This Is Just To Say, 1934
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William Carlos Williams wrote a quick note to his wife one morning, a ‘passing
gesture’, and stuck it on the refridgerator before heading off to work.
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