plums?

     I used to really like plums but I haven't eaten one in forever so I don't know if they're still good. This character obviously did enough to steal them from whoever he/she lives with. First we can deduce that this character is an early riser, as he got to the icebox before his companion (as the companion was saving them for breakfast). The character then regrets his actions and also changes the tone by capitalizing "Forgive". Perhaps this poem was written as a note to the companion as a taunt such as "Ha! I ate your plums because you slept too late." However, as the character went on to think about what he had done, he felt a bit remorseful and perhaps he had taken it too far, so he added the "Forgive me" part as an afterthought, thus explaining the capitalization.
    
     As a plum is a rather odd fruit to write a poem about, perhaps William Carlos Williams (he has William in there twice? What were his parents thinking?? William Williams?) had another more serious meaning behind it. An important story about fruit comes from the Bible when Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit. The adjectives so "sweet" and "cold" make the plums sound enticing. But maybe you've experience the sweet pain of biting into ice cream. It tastes wonderful but the cold is just too much for your teeth to handle. The adjective cold might be a counterpart to sweet, causing the character to feel remorse for doing this act in the first place. William Carlos Williams just wanted us to sit here pondering his simple, little poem while he ran off and ate all the plums. Which just isn't fair....

Here's my shot:

I just read

your poem

for my class

in Lit

and now

Mr. Williams

I have

to think

Forgive me

I don't understand

so simple

and so deep