This Is Just To Say

My friend Calan writes a web comic that I love. The graphic style of it is wonderful and the mood of the comic is fun too, sweet Gothic horror. In her own words it’s:

A webcomic about a semi-neurotic goth gingerbread boy, his strange playmates and the sister who wants him dead.

Last week she put up a comic that was inspired by the William Carlos Williams poem, This Is Just To Say. She writes:

I was listening to a podcast of This American Life the other day and it opened with the famous poem ‘This is just to say’ by William Carlos Williams, followed by several spoof versions. Apparently, many writers have done versions of this famous poem. In fact, in classrooms and writing groups it’s not an uncommon exercise, not to mention a fun one, to create a rendition of the poem.

This the poem:

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

What is fun to spoof is that this poem, while seeming like an apology, is insincere. It reads as a fake apology. The narrator knows it’s wrong to eat the plums, but did it anyway, and doesn’t really say he’s sorry. With that in mind. Please take a look at Calan’s version. It’s my favorite spoof of it so far:

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