The last episode of
This American Life concluded with an entertaining bit about the parodies that have been created from William Carlos Williams' poem/half-hearted-

apology
This is Just to Say. I'm not normally a consumer of poetry but I found this particularly entertaining. I think there's something to be said for hearing a poem instead of reading it that really makes it stick. Or maybe it was that tiny drop of sarcasm.
Sorry But it was Beautiful by Andrew Vecchione
Sorry I took your money and burned it
but it looked like the world falling
apart when it crackled and burned.
So I think it was worth it after all
you can't see the world fall apart
every day.
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