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"Poetry 180, a Turning
Back to Poetry,"

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an anthology by Billy Collins.

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One of my favorites
happens to be in here--

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Terence Winch's
"Social Security."

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"No one is safe.

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The streets are unsafe.

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Even in the safety
zones, it's not safe.

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Even safe sex is not safe.

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Even things you lock up
in a safe are not safe.

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Never deposit anything
in a safe deposit box

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because it won't be safe there.

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Nobody is safe at home during
baseball games anymore.

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At night, I go around in
the dark locking everything,

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returning a few minutes later to
make sure I locked everything.

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It's not safe here.

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It is not safe,
and they know it.

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People get hurt
using safety pins.

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It was not always this way.

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Long ago, everyone felt safe.

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Aristotle never felt danger.

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Herodotus felt danger but
only when Xerxes was around.

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Young women were afraid of
wingéd dragons but felt relaxed

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otherwise.

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Timotheus, however,
was terrified of storms

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until he played
one on the flute.

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After that, well, after that
everyone was more afraid of him

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than of the violent
west wind, which

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was just fine with Timotheus.

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Euclid, full of music himself,
believed only that there

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was safety in numbers."

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