Hope You Want to Stay

"Hope You Want to Stay"

I have woken

You from

Your deep sleep

This morning

You were

Most likely dreaming

Of your

Home sweet home

I apologize

For I must attend 

Practice

Every morning.

For my parody of William Carlos William's poem, "This is Just to Say", I wrote about how I wake my roommate up in the morning when I leave for morning swim practice. I used the same form as Williams, three four line stanzas, and the same number of syllables within each line. Like Williams, I made my poem an apology and set it up very similarly. The first stanza in William's poem is the speaker confessing to eating the plums out of the freezer and the first stanza in my poem is the speaker confessing to waking her roommate up in the morning. The second stanza in William's poem the speaker is saying how the listener was most likely going to eat the plums for breakfast, but now she cannot. My second stanza is saying that my roommate was probably having pleasant dreams, but cannot any longer because the speaker has woken her up. The last stanza of William's poem is the actual apology and the speaker is asking for forgiveness. My last stanza is also an apology with a bit of reasoning to why I must wake my roommate in the morning. My parody was in admiration of Williams, not to poke fun at his writing. I really liked the way he set this poem up and thought it added a lot to just a simple sentence.