Parody

Please don’t Be surprise

A watch was sold
the one
that your mom
has left you

you ate
my sweet and cold plums
it was
my breakfast

You should know
that I have bought some
more plums
for you too

For my parody of William Carlos Williams’s poem “This is Just to Say”; I chose to create a reply from whom Williams’s note was left for. I apply similar capitalization of the title by switching back and forward between each word. My poem has the same number of three stanzas in which each stanza has four lines. The syllabus form also mimics to what Williams’s poem has; which is (including the title): 5; 4,2,3,3; 2,5,2,3; 3,5,2,3. Also if you noticed the capitalization vertically at the beginning of each line in Williams’s poem, it would spell the word “TIF” which sounds very similar to “thieve”. If you would look at the capitalization of my poem, it mimics the location of Williams’s poem and would spell “PAY” which one could argue that it stands for “Pay Back”. The last stanza mimics Williams's poem by showing a slight feeling of guilt. But instead of saying he is sorry, he let Williams know that he did something nice for him by buying him more plums that he seems to enjoy so much. This is, his way of saying "I am sorry".