this is just to say
This is just to sayI 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 coldThe Complete Collected Poems, New Directions, USA (1938)
Esto es sólo para decir
Me he comido
las ciruelas
que se encontraban en
la nevera
y que
que probablemente
tu guardabas
para el desayuno
Perdóname
estaban deliciosas
tan dulces
y tan frías
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
Los poemas completos recogidos, New Directions, USA (1938)


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