David Hart Poet Blank verse

For There Can Be Surprise

For there is more than a blank dark
screen
The white dot doth to and fro venture

Is there more than a continuous hum?
The ploppityclip of the white broad band
Doth blithely dance

Is that the sound of a gnat's wing batting
Amidst the droning hum?

Waiting, waiting, waiting
When will something come?
When will something happen?

Living life--waiting, wishing, waiting
For there can be surprise
Shocking, joyous or otherwise

Can we speed it up, let's make
Something happen !!

The white line--does it snap
No need to care, monotonous buzz--
A joke?

Startled I am! For there can be surprise.
(This poem is best to be read in front of a television tuned into a channel without a
program so the static noise can readily be heard)

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