“I’m hoping to be astonished tomorrow
by I don’t know what”
Jim Harrison
it happens to countless others
amazed, stupefied, pasty, flabbergasted faces
pasted across the popular press as news
– with his old tractor, a dirt farmer upturns treasure
in some orifice or other, a spider or lake leech has wormed their way in
a Chinese meteor makes a sudden pass – and we all know what good fortune
fire dragons bring to those born in the year of the dog
yesterday someone’s cute canine and a croc played dinner games
no pictures to follow today – and besides, there’s only a quick buzz in bizarre
I want to wake up as astonished as if the sky had fallen in
to find your apology on the mat, all love letters enclosed intact
the only poem I ever wrote to you with a solicitor’s cover note
confirmation that my property is now mine
– but better still, surprise me
Joining Jilly for her Jim Harrison prompts on this Day 9 of 28 Days of Unreason
PoetryPix 
You’re a hard one to surprise 🙂 We live in an age of the constant, never-ending search for novelty. Our novelty batteries have to be recharged several times a day. Maybe that’s why you sound so jaded (read that with a voice of heavy irony).
Novel idea the novelty batteries – goes to show how much of the bizarre press I digest – but at least it bears a lighter tone than usual – even at the end
Especially at the end, I think. It sounds as though you have decided that all the heartache really isn’t.
indeed!
🙂
That final line is killer! So glad you wrote today, Laura.
astonishment is irresistible – thanks for keeping us up to scratch!
I love the changing snap shots of the newsfeed. I do hope the canine won the dinner game.
And that apology letter on the mat…..now THAT would be absolutely fantastic. Loved this!
thank you Vivian – never thought of it as a newsfeed poem but spot on!
alas the dog lost the game! here is the ending
You’re welcome!
Oh no! Why on earth did the owner allow his dog so close? How sad!