This is just to say....

A few weeks ago, This American Life did a feature on the poem, "This is just to say" by William Carlos Williams. It's a simple poem, but incredibly evocative, and often-imitated. Several of the regular TAL contributors composed their own versions of the poem, and the results ranged from funny to tragic.

Here is the original poem:

This Is Just To Say
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

Here is my attempt (it's autobiographical, even):

This is just to say that
I ate your chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream
from the Happy Harry's

and which apparently,
you were
saving for a before-bed snack
Lucy ate some too.

Forgive us
it was chocolatey
and chippy
and so sweet.

-- Kirsten

And here is Richard's entry, in his favorite creative style, LOLcats (click on the picture to make it bigger):