this is just to say / 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

--- (excerpt from) eloisa to abelard / alexander pope

• How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!
• The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
• Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
• Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd

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