roses poetry, "this is just to say" 

This is just to say
I have eaten
the roses
you kept in
the icebox

and which
you were definitely
mistaken
in putting there

They're roses
what's wrong with you
they don't go in the icebox

what do you mean what's wrong with me

Of course I ate
the roses
I had to
that's how the poem begins
yes the thorns hurt a lot

sometimes
we do foolish things for love

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