This Is Just To Say

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Photo by Joanna Kosinska on Unsplash


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

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