To My Daughter, I Just Have To Say

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I Just Have to Say

That I didn't miss
the plums
that were in
the fridge

but now you
have eaten
an entire two pints
of raspberries,
my favorites,
I hoped to share at breakfast

Were they delicious?
Sweet,
tart
and cold?
I didn't get
a one.

*With apologies to William Carlos Williams