This American Life had a wonderful piece on the William Carlos Williams poem "This is Just to Say." It's sort of a non-apology apology and a poem that other poets love to parody.

Anyway -- this is just to say

That I had already decided

To absolutely lose it

If one more person mentioned my hair color

In a way/setting I deemed irrelevant.

And you were the lucky winner, kind volunteer at the Annapolis Book Festival.

(I had been stuck in traffic, too.)

World, I am now so brunette.

Get over it.