"This Is Just to Say" William Carlos Williams - my thoughts

What is in a title?

 

Does it tell the same story as the poem itself?

William Carlos Williams
This Is Just to Say

I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold

~

The speaker is leaving a message, like a memo, an FYI.
As in "oh by the way.."
This is the tone I get from just the title.
But it is in the poem of course I get the sense of the real tone. A short path to an apology. The speaker doesn't say that they are sorry specifically, but they are asking for forgiveness.
Like a note left on an empty container or shelf by a roommate who had a case of the late night munchies. There is something so frustrating about that. They know they have done wrong. Even if it is as simple as eating a few plums.
Do people really need to put there names on everything? Sometimes.. I think the answer will have to be a yes. Here is something I wrote in response to This Is Just to Say by William Carlos Williams.

Breakfast

I awake
It is early, too early
I splash my face
I lace my shoes

The kitchen is crisp with morning chill.
The heat has yet to make it's presence known.

I open the fridge
My grip tightens on the handle,
My knuckles grow pale
My breakfast, my morning's sweet peace
is gone.

In it's place, a small paper
A few lines of hastily scratched gibberish

My house mate
like a masked bandit in the night,
strikes again                    
                                                                    
I close the door
I shake my head
I cannot eat paper
So what now I ask

Coffee and a morning smoke I suppose
Breakfast of champions


(Illustration- Unknown Artist)