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This Is Just to Say

Join actor John Hodgman, poet and physician Rafael Campo, poet Jane Hirshfield, and couples, young and old, as they unpack William Carlos Williams’s plum of a poem.

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Read the Poem

This Is Just to Say

by William Carlos Williams

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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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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