Tamarinds Taken! August 2023

Summary
In August 2023, the "Tamarinds Taken!" incident sparked a series of poetic parodies and discussions on the internet, primarily centered around the theft of fruit and the famous William Carlos Williams poem "This Is Just to Say."
Abstract
The "Tamarinds Taken!" article from August 2023 discusses a series of parodies inspired by the poem "This Is Just to Say" by William Carlos Williams, which were shared on the blog MakingLight and other internet platforms. The incident involves a character known as the "Scoundrel" who "steals" fruit and leaves apologetic notes, mimicking the style of the original poem. The article references various parodies, some of which are archived on the Internet Archive and others that are no longer accessible. It also highlights the community's engagement with the parodies, the cultural significance of the original poem, and the playful nature of online discourse. The piece encourages donations to the Internet Archive and points to a revival of a visualization project by Illuminati Ganga related to the fruit-theft theme.
Opinions

Again, another parody from MakingLight not currently findable, because lost somewhere in a Movable Type DB or something.
This was however available in the Internet Archive
Which I suggest you donate to
The Parodies that went into it
This is just to say we have fired the Berlusconi you were keeping in your Parliament and which you were probably saving for perdition. I am sorry, it was so inevitable he was such a buffoon so laughable, and crude.
This is just to say I have eagerly translated a poem about preserved fruit in your storage device which you were probably saving for later consumption. Forgive me, it was out of copyright and parodies are protected by decree of court.
This is just to say I have grown tired of the parodies of that dratted little poem, which you most probably thought so refined and enjoyable. Forgive me the were boring me far past the point of tears.
Which the sentiment of that last poem was really the sentiment that caused the Scoundrel to initially sally forth on his mission to steal all the fruit he could find!
Also
This is just to say that I have shattered the logic puzzle you put up on your blog. I am sorry, it was so Aristotelian honest and cold.
So 4 poems by Fragano (obviously a half-French, half- Italian nobleman of some sort) — note that one of them was one of the poems that I said had not been wordclouded in my previous article on this outrageous incident of fruit-theft

More MakingLight, gosh sometimes it seems all those folks did was parody this one poem all day long and sometimes write in archaic English.
This is just to say I have put the old wine That you were saving Into the new I CAN’T DO IT
That’s the spirit Kip W. I couldn’t do it either, it’s wrong, wrong to steal the fruit. That fruit has rotted long ago I tell you!
But even so —
This is just to say I’ve taken the cake You took so long to make And left it out In the rain It was wrong, but I just had to watch The icing flowing down, So green. So sweet.
Wow, so much depends on the green icing of the cake in the rain.
THIS IS JUST TO SAY I’ve surrendered freedoms from the Constitution which you probably were expecting to cherish. Don’t worry we’re going to be secure and safe any minute now
How can anyone be secure in a country where someone can just come along and steal the fruit and then leave one of those non-apology letters on the fridge.
This is just to say I took that bag of plasma…
Hey, don’t make an effort Kip W. or anything here. Geez!
This is just to say, “This is just to say, ‘This is just to sa LOOP TERMINATED
This is just to say I took your poem.
Finally, some truth from these miscreants!
This Is Just to Say I have removed the vowels that were in your last post and which you probably intended to be read No regrets you were offensive so rude and so smug
This refers back to an arcane and vanished tradition of this mysterious tribe of fruit-filching internetians. If a visitor to the tribe disturbed its revels in some discourteous way they were still allowed to speak but their vowels were removed as punishment.

I was getting tired of romping through the same orchard, new grounds have been conquered.
But once again we see the disintegration of the Internet of old. This url http://www.scrapbook.com/poems/doc/28885.html no longer leads to a collection of parodies, evidently you are required to identify yourself to get in to this orchard to steal the hidden treasures therein.


And that collection of parodies was at
HAH HAH, he thought he was stealing the fruit but I crept up and took off his picanic basket
Scoundrel Steals Fruit, Apologizes Profusely was a past visualization project from Illuminati Ganga that is being revived.
UnbecomingIt’s August in Northern Virginia, hot and humid. I still haven’t showered from my morning trail run. I’m wearing my stay-at-home mom…
Jano le RouxWhy aren’t more people talking about this!?
Karolina KozmanaBy rejecting alcohol, you reject something very human, an extra limb that we have collectively grown to deal with reality and with each…
Maisie ArcherAnd how strangers I never saw again came to my rescue
Alexander Nguyen1-page. Well-formatted.