This is just to say that I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox

1. This is just to say that 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 taken critter punishing was being bad cage it was sad lonely playful

2. This is just to say that 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 read words doubt book don’t Judge me I’m so far away imperfect imperfect

3. This is just to say that 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 taken life wanting was to last forever your hands I was driving so drunk she was and now

4. Excepting the diner on the outskirts the town of Ladora At 3 a.m. Was dark but for my headlights and up and in One second-story room A single light

5. Where someone was sick or perhaps reading as I drove past at seventy not thinking This poem is for whoever had the light on

6. Excepting the diner on the outskirts the town of Ladora At 3 a.m. Was dark but for my headlights and up and in One second-story room A single light that is was still a tie scoreboard team of kids the ballpark sad when out Of the ballpark hit

7. Where someone was sick or perhaps reading as I drove past at seventy not thinking This poem is for whoever had the light on by with skill or luck then ran home plate rejoicing hit the the winning run

8. Excepting the diner on the outskirts the town of Ladora At 3 a.m. Was dark but for my headlights and up and in One second-story room A single light blind in woods Hulbert still movement down at the bait pile where a deer gave snort

9. Where someone was sick or perhaps reading as I drove past at seventy not thinking This poem is for whoever had the light on eating smelling walked past ends up eating my venison steaks