Introduction

This Is Just to Say

Instead of at the beginning

I slipped

this introduction

in here

 

where

my editor excruciatingly loudly

screeched

it does not belong

 

Forgive me

I also shredded

her red pencil and stirred

the splinters into her tea

Blame my poems on the American poet William Carlos Williams,
who lived from 1883 to 1963 and was a doctor as well as a poet.
Here’s his false apology 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