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The Royal Festival Hall is closed to the public on Tuesday 16 June. It will reopen for Harry Styles & Jules Buckley Orchestra ticket holders only at 5pm.

This Is Just To Say

By William Carlos Williams

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

Text
Food & drink Humour

From The North No 9 (1990).

By William Carlos Williams, from Collected Poems 1909-1939: Volume I, © 1938 by New Directions Publishing Corp. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.