3209: Plums

Plums

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Title text: My icebox plum trap easily captured William Carlos Williams. It took much less work than the infinite looping network of diverging paths I had to build in that yellow wood to ensnare Robert Frost.

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Explanation

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56159/this-is-just-to-say https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_Just_to_Say

Transcript

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I got you the ingredients for dinner tonight.

Oh, and the plums in the fridge drawer are for my yogurt tomorrow; you should just leave them.

Be back later!

Oh no.

Help. It actually happened. I shouldn't, but how can I not!?

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Referencing William Carlos Williams "This is Just To Say", an apology for eating the plums. 2600:1001:B000:6009:F81B:2869:73B7:339 03:31, 19 February 2026 (UTC)

Robert Frost is my first cousin five times removed. Pgn674 (talk) 03:36, 19 February 2026 (UTC)

You could easily trap Edgar Allan Poe by training a crow. Xkdvd (talk) 05:07, 19 February 2026 (UTC)

I just described the scene in the transcript, it doesn't look quite right to me, I'm pretty sure there's supposed to be brackets or something, could someone fix that if I did it wrong? Xkdvd (talk) 05:12, 19 February 2026 (UTC)

The characterization of the poem as an apology needs an [actual citation needed] tag. 2001:8004:4E50:6B3:A564:E93B:1878:3634 06:00, 19 February 2026 (UTC)

The words "forgive me" aren't good enough for you? 174.127.214.79 06:46, 19 February 2026 (UTC)

Seems pretty simple. Eat the plums for the cred, and then book reservations for a romantic breakfast the next morning. 73.42.229.109 06:22, 19 February 2026 (UTC)

Might just make things more awkward if the trapper is just a roommate. 82.13.184.33 09:10, 19 February 2026 (UTC)

Could the caption style also be a reference to the poem? New editor (talk) 07:08, 19 February 2026 (UTC)

It would be much more difficult that Robert Frost if one is to follow Gulzaar's "Is Mod se" Mitradranirban (talk)

Does the joke rely on any connection between Frost's surname and the Icebox? 79.161.109.128 10:35, 19 February 2026 (UTC)

Wouldn't say so, given that they're referring to two different poems. If it did rely on that, I would say it didn't work! 82.13.184.33 11:39, 19 February 2026 (UTC)

Tangent here: can someone explains to me how the structure of WCW's poem works? I find neither rythm nor rhyme. --94.73.51.255

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_verse 82.13.184.33 11:36, 19 February 2026 (UTC)
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