Memorization: This Is Just To Say

 Decided to start with something a little smaller than "The Man in the Arena" for my memorization. "This Is Just to Say" by William Carlos Williams is one of my favorite poems, and it's only 33 words, which makes it pretty manageable. I'll continue to work on the larger pieces, but fun to work on a small one first.

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

The hardest part is remember where the that and which are. At first, I thought there was a that in the first line.

So, there we go. It'll probably never be anything more than a party trick, but always fun to accomplish anything, even something little like this. I'm still in catch up mode for the blog at the moment. Finishing up the Adlerama series I started before April, and doing posts for a couple smaller/one shot readings I did in the couple months. Not sure where I'm going after that. Part of me wants to circle back to the Norton Anthology stuff I was looking at earlier in the year. The other part wants to dig in and do a whole book.