Cherries and plums
I just had a craving for cherries, which I bought from a fruit man today.
Brief digression. There's a fruit man near me who always greets me and acts pleased to see me...but he calls me ma'am. Isn't that the worst word in the English language (well, one of them)? I should tell him to never, ever use it (very politely of course, so as not to hurt his feelings).
Anyway, these are the first cherries I had this season. I had become a watermelon person. But I saw these cherries winking up at me from the fruit cart, and I had to have them.
And eating them...they were so good...reminded me of a poem I saw on the subway a while ago. The New York City Transit Authority, among other things, puts poetry on the subway. Some of it is not so good. I love this one.
This is Just to Say
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.
-- William Carlos Williams
Brief digression. There's a fruit man near me who always greets me and acts pleased to see me...but he calls me ma'am. Isn't that the worst word in the English language (well, one of them)? I should tell him to never, ever use it (very politely of course, so as not to hurt his feelings).
Anyway, these are the first cherries I had this season. I had become a watermelon person. But I saw these cherries winking up at me from the fruit cart, and I had to have them.
And eating them...they were so good...reminded me of a poem I saw on the subway a while ago. The New York City Transit Authority, among other things, puts poetry on the subway. Some of it is not so good. I love this one.
This is Just to Say
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.
-- William Carlos Williams
Comments
Cherries...mmmm. Do you have a cherry pitter?
I have a bag of ice cold cherries in the fridge right now:-)
Kristen - maybe with ice cream :)
ZM - was it written in spanish originally? i never knew that.
I don't normally read poems but that particular poem is so cute!!! Haha..
I love cherries,nectarines too..
It's fun, shooting the pits through the air. Not really necessary for a small snack of cherries, but it comes in handy if you want to pit a bunch at one time.
Mmmm, cherries. I think we should all go to Liz's and make cherry pie. :)
I agree, I think he might not even be familiar with "miss" because English isn't his first language (he has an Indian accent). But the "ma'am" might be costing him customers ;)
Mmm...cherries...yummy.
Maybe you could introduce yourself to the fruit man? "Call me ___."
Kitkat - that's a smart idea, though it requires some measure of courage. i'm always shy about introducing myself in situations like that.