From Writing Notebook 2021, published in 2022.
Of One Mind or Two
This guy. I’m sitting on it –
what he told me –
until when or until what happens
I don’t know. I’m just going to wait.
I chew it over. Bite and bite on it.
It’s hard.
I make no impression on it.
No, no. Let yourself be surprised
people say
but what’s so good about
That blindsided me all right
or
I never saw that coming
or
It’s a hoax Surely it is
Well, I don’t believe in it.
Until that guy told me.
Now I know something too.
I wish I were surprised.
8/6/21
Claudia McGill Writes Poetry, Did You Know That? 
And then the Donald got re-elected
Wake up, people. On a lot of topics.
I say that because he has decided to campaign again.
Ignorance is bliss in some situations…
And Matt’s comment made me laugh!!
Yes. I think I have seen all the ignorance I want to in this lifetime all right, and not even all of it has been recently. Eek!
Often I find it’s better not to know. (K)
Some things you need to know and others not, and by the time you have decided if you wish you knew or not, then you know, and it’s too late. Somehow I wish that could be fixed.
It’s complicated.
I am very much not a fan of surprises. Some are a delight, of course, but just the thought of something like a surprise party unsettles me. I have also had too many nasty surprises in life so I am now hard-wired to appreciate forewarnings and advance notice. I am also like the narrator of your poem in that I like to ponder and chew over things. Ruminating is comfortable to me even though it sometimes makes my brain go into over-drive.
I am always disturbed by surprises and even good ones unsettle me, and I have to recover and sort of get with the feeling.