Just to Let You Know

I have gone to
dinner
with that same
person

in which
you were probably
going
to marry

Forgive me
she is beautiful
so nice
and gullable




This is a parody of "This is Just to Say" by William Carlos Williams, except instead of writing about how he had stole the plums from an icebox, my poem is about a guy who stole a girlfriend from his friend. I tried ot keep it on the same idea wen it comes ot stealing, but decided that the tone of the poem would be more noticeable with a more serious event. Both poems have the same amount of lines, number of punctuations, and number of capital letters. I had to change the number of syllables in a few lines to fit what I was really trying to say.
In the original poem, the form and content sent the tone as being nonchalant and making the apology sarcastic. Williams use of short words such as "sweet" and "cold" gives the apology less seriousness to it. In my poem, I tried to give the same pseudo-apology by using words such as "nice" and "gullable". My parody of William's poem is giving praise to his poem because it shows that his poem is worth noting and learning from.