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This is just to say
The original
This Is Just To Say
William Carlos Williams, 1883 - 1963
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
The parodies
An early project to keep track of all MetaFilter's versions of this poem can be found here.
A more recent thread that does the same thing is here.
An even more recent thread about the phenomenon is here.
Ghidorah used the poem in class and posted to tell us about it here.
Meanwhile, elsewhere on the web, Wondermark did a great version of its own.
The podcast mentions
Versions and mentions of the poem can be found in several podcasts:
Podcast 46
Podcast 55
Podcast 141
There's moar, most likely. This is just the ones that mention 'plums'.
The generator
Cortex built an auto-generator that spits out riffs on this poem. It lives here.
