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===Inspiration===
As far as I can tell, I wrote '''This is Just to be Meta''' on a whim, rather than for any prompt. Anyway, the idea was to create a pastiche of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Carlos_Williams William Carlos Williams's] classic imagist poem ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_Just_to_Say "This is just to say"]'', with the added twist that it's also a comment on how many bloody poets pastiche that particular poem and think they're the first to do so. I'm a big fan of having my cake and eating it at every available opportunity, incidentally.

===Publications===
'''This is Just to be Meta''' was published by ''[https://thepygmygiant.com The Pygmy Giant]'' on December 29th, 2012.

===Notes===
Some time before this, I'd also submitted a zombie parody of William Carlos Williams's poem to the 2009 ''[https://www.amazon.co.uk/Vicious-Verses-Reanimated-Rhymes-Zombie/dp/1897217951/ Vicious Verse and Reanimated Rhymes]'' anthology. This is what it looked like:

===William Carlos Williams is a Zombie===

<poem>
This is just to say

I have eaten
the body parts
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so tender
and bloody
</poem>

I think the editor made the right decision when he turned it down, although he did accept ''[[Zombie Bride]]'' instead.