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This is Just to Say, I Have Rounded Up the 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

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.

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

Carley Rae Jeplums

Mad Plums

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

Fresh Plums

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

Mambo No. Plums

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

Meta Plums

Sorry Ms. Plumson

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

Statistical Plums

Little Drummer Plums

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

Hymnal Plums

Biblical Plums

Happy Plummas

Paula Cole Plums

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

American Plums

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