This Is Just to Say

This Is Just to Say
(Wall poem in The Hague)

"This Is Just to Say" (1934) is an imagist poem[1] by William Carlos Williams. The three-versed, 28-word poem is an apology about eating the reader's plums. The poem was written as if it were a note left on a kitchen table. It has been widely pastiched.[2][3]

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  2. ^ Romano, Aja (2017-12-01). "This is why there are jokes about plums all over your Twitter feed". Vox. Retrieved 2021-11-19.
  3. ^ "This is just to say… : The parodies of that 'plums' poem just keep coming". The Irish News. 2018-06-07. Retrieved 2021-11-19.