Title text:
My icebox plum trap easily captured William Carlos Williams. It took much less work than the infinite looping network of diverging paths I had to build in that yellow wood to ensnare Robert Frost.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3209/
Wow, I wasn't cultured enough to get the reference to William Carlos Williams. Frost, yes, of course.
Looking up the poem, I have certainly heard it before.
I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the iceboxand which
you were probably
saving
for breakfastForgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold
Edit: Markdown for Lemmy instances possibly fixed
Def a more niche reference I feel:
This is a reference to the William Carlos Williams poem This Is Just to Say, in which the narrator is apologizing for eating the plums in the icebox. In this comic, the joke is that Cueball, learning that the person out of view has left themselves some plums in the refrigerator for tomorrow, cannot resist eating them as a reference to the poem.
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