There is a famous poem by William Carlos Williams called “This Is Just To Say” which reads like an a half-hearted apology a husband may have left on a scrap of paper on the kitchen table.

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

I heard about this poem, and the many spoofs of it on an episode of This American Life. There is some information about it on Wikipedia, as well as some examples of spoofs that they talked about on the show. There is even an online Mad Libs style generator so that you can easily create a “This Is Just To Say” poem of your own.