This is Just to Say, I Have Rounded Up the Plums Tweets
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
Hwæt! þēos plumas þe in icebox wære
swylce þu ge-saving hǽdfe
for þæm breoc-fastum eaten hæbbe ic.
Me forgif mine gyltas for synnum minum
Swæt wǽre swa swa ceoll frofer mannum.Þæs ofereode, þisses swa mæg.
— Damian Fleming (@FW_Medieval) December 4, 2017
Spiderman plums
Spider-Man
Spider-Man
Ate your plums
Sorry fam
They were great
Cold and sweet
Your breakfast’s ruined
Taste defeat
Love,
Dr. Doom— Aanand (@aanand) August 6, 2014
Internet plums
left icebox with none plums
— B. 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
And I find it kinda funny
I find it kinda sad
That your breakfast for tomorrow
Was the plums that I just had— apples georg 🐋 (@logicbutton) November 29, 2017
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
a little bit of cold plums in my life
a little bit of icebox by my side
a little bit of breakfast is what you need
a little bit of forgiveness, what I seek
a little bit of delicious, thats those plums
a little bit of sweet plums all night long
a little bit of cold plums here I am— thom (@thwphipps) November 28, 2017
Meta Plums
This is Just to Say
I retweeted
the-plums-
that-were-in-
the-icebox tweetwhich you have
probably
already
seenforgive meme
— Jeremy Noel-Tod (@jntod) November 29, 2017
Sorry Ms. Plumson
This Is Just to Say, Ms. Jackson
I have made
cry
your daughter
that lives in your houseand which you
you were probably
hoping
for marriageForgive me
I am four eels
several fish
and not a guy.— Austin Gilkeson (@osutein) November 29, 2017
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
this is a note to say parumpumpumpum
I ate your foods today parumpumpumpum
they were so sweet and cold parumpumpumpum
me and your plums— jed (they/them) (@ohshitcircuit) November 30, 2017
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
I don't wanna wait
for my plums to get colder— mathew yates (@m_yates) November 30, 2017
American Plums
I heard there was a set of words
That the kids memed and confused the olds
But you don't really care for poems, do you?
Well it goes like this: the plums, the box,
The sweet cold taste, and the breakfast lost,
The baffling tweets reworking Carlos Williams— Michaela Joffe (@joffeorama) November 29, 2017