I'm sorry, but



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

I'm sorry, but . . . In this poem by William Carlos Williams, he apologizes for eating someone's plums.

Your assignment: You too will write a tongue-in-cheek apology. Certainly there have been times when you’ve been sorry for something, but at the end there's always a reason why you enjoyed doing what you’re expressing sorrow for. An example of this is 'I'm sorry I broke your window, but it's the first time I ever hit a home run.'"

You may create your own format or follow Williams’ form of 3 quatrains!

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