“Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold”

—  William Carlos Williams

"This Is Just to Say"
Collected Poems 1921-1931 (1934)
Context: 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

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