Thin Is Just to Slay: Letterplay with Poems

I've recently come across a couple of fun items that play with movie titles. Artist Austin Light removes one letter from the title of popular movies and illustrates the result, with a catchy little blurb explaining the new movie's premise. The results are hilarious.

And Teleclub's agency Y&R Zurich has added an extra letter, in the form of a brand logo, to movie titles to create a strong ad campaign with the tagline "We won't ruin your movies."

I thought it would be fun to apply this concept to poetry, so I played around with William Carlos Williams' "This Is Just to Say."

Thin is just to slay

I have beaten

the plumps

that were sin

the icebox

sand wich

you were probably

slaving

for breakfast

Forgiven men

they were delicious

so sweet
and so bold

(Find the original here.)

I probably picked that poem because I've recently started following @justtosaybot on Twitter and I can't get enough.