life is a poem.

so i was looking for background info on William Carlos William's "The Red Wheelbarrow" online... and a Youtube video came up, and i thought to myself, "what the heck? people made videos about the poem?"... and they were kind of boring, but somehow it lead me to this:







which is... a video on WCW's poem "This is Just to Say..." and.. when were talking about it in my lit class today, i started thinking about the title:
"THIS IS JUST TO SAY"... it's like... usually, when you say you're writing a poem, people might ask "oh, what are you writing about?" ... people, for some reason, sometimes expect so much from poetry.. sometimes people think poetry HAS to say something completely profound and enlightening... and yet.. with this poem, it's like, if someone were to ask Williams: "Oh, what are you writing your poem about?" and his response is simply "oh, this poem is just to say that i have eaten the plums that were in the icebox..." and i imagine the person who asked the question having a look of confusion on their face, like, "a poem that's purpose is to inform someone that you've eaten a plum?? what kind of a poem is THAT?"... and i think that the poem is a response to that question... it's saying that poems CAN be written JUST TO SAY something as simple as having eaten a plum... everything in life is worth having a poem written about it. Life itself is a 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

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