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This is Just to Say, I Have Rounded Up the Plums Tweets

Why is the internet obsessed with the William Carlos Williams poem, "This is Just to Say" and showing it with a bunch of plums tweets?

Jesse Doogan

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Jesse Doogan writes about food, faith, books, and DIY projects, and sometimes even puts these things on her blog. She works in publishing and lives near Chicago with her cat. She tweets about all these things at @jadoogan. Blog Twitter: @jadoogan

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Dec 18, 2017

I do not know why the internet loves “This Is Just to Say,” the poem by William Carlos Williams, so much. It’s short and easily re-mixed, sure. It’s lighthearted and well-known, I guess. But lots of things are! This doesn’t explain why, for a few weeks, all Twitter did was share plums tweets.

It’s to bad that the only joke left On Here is the one about the plums.

— Jesse Doogan (@jadoogan) November 29, 2017

Vox and NYMagazine have done their best to explain why we were talking about plums, but it is still a sort of beautiful internet mystery.

https://twitter.com/soniasaraiya/status/938141434020016130

So instead of analyzing the plums tweets, I’m just going to celebrate them. Happy Plummas, everyone.

Beowulf plums

https://twitter.com/FW_Medieval/status/937726166785581057

Spiderman plums

https://twitter.com/aanand/status/496852311885766657

Internet plums

left icebox with none plums

— Bo Bolander (@BBolander) November 30, 2017

Carley Rae Jeplums

HEY i just met you
and this is CRAzy
but the plums in the icebox
i ate them maybe

— regular gem (@Choplogik) November 28, 2017

Mad Plums

https://twitter.com/logicbutton/status/936010554623320064

Fresh Plums

https://twitter.com/MindyHungSpace/status/936057766397038592

IM COMING OUT OF MY FRIDGE
AND I AM FEELING QUITE FULL
I HAVE EATEN YOUR PLUMS
THEY WERE SO SWEET AND COLD

— jonny sun (@jonnysun) December 1, 2017

Take me down to icebox city / Where the breakfast's sweet and the plums are chilly

— Miranda Martini (@mandsypants) November 30, 2017

Mambo No. Plums

https://twitter.com/thwphipps/status/935465303202557952

Meta Plums

This is Just to Say

I retweeted
the-plums-
that-were-in-
the-icebox tweet

which you have
probably
already
seen

forgive meme

— Jeremy Noel-Tod (@jntod) November 29, 2017

Sorry Ms. Plumson

https://twitter.com/osutein/status/935892967507841024

Statistical Plums

“average person eats 3 of your plums a year" factoid actually just statistical error. average person steals 0 breakfast plums per year. William Carlos Williams, who lives in an ice box steals over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

— R Ray (@R_Ray_M) December 2, 2017

Little Drummer Plums

https://twitter.com/ohshitcircuit/status/936099747475070976

Hymnal Plums

A mighty icebox held your plums
A bulwark never failing
Until I came to get your plums
In shoes made for a baby

— Martyn Wendell Jones (@martynwendell) December 7, 2017

Biblical Plums

And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of the plums in the icebox which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, because I am saving it for my breakfast.

— Dr Jenny Haricot (@jennyharicot) November 29, 2017

Happy Plummas

So this is Christmas
and what have you done
You've opened the icebox
And you've eaten my plums

— Pandrews (@pandrews) November 29, 2017

Paula Cole Plums

https://twitter.com/m_yates/status/936024981485572096

American Plums

https://twitter.com/joffeorama/status/935970663805972486