Clementine mandarins. Yum.

So... I'm trying NOT to hog all the extra credit points available in the picture banners on Blackboard.  It's a little difficult, being the overachiever that I am.  Instead, I am passive-aggressively tweeting about the current picture posted, hoping someone will snag the points so I will be able to rest because the task will be complete.

I love this poem by the mystery author...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

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 - See more at: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15535#sthash.8tLzPdWM.dpuf

I always wonder... he says he was sorry, but was he?  He ate more than one.  He even thought about how they were part of someone else's plans.  Maybe he's the guy at work who ignores the names on the lunches in the fridge and just gets into everyone's food anyway. 

I want to call him a jerk, and move on.

But... as I read... I can't help but think that he's saying... "Life is so sweet, life is so cold...forgive me, but I'm grabbing life where I need to grab it..."

Then I want to forgive him, even though he left me hungry.

In my house, it would be about mandarin oranges. 

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 - See more at: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15535#sthash.8tLzPdWM.dpuf