The Catch With Safety

is two fold and contradictory;
on the one hand safety is never what it appears to be,
true safety is deeply layered and hides how it works
from who it protects, as if it it's safety
partly lay in how it operates incognito.

On the other hand we never have enough of it,
however much we are aware that our security
pushes poorer people into living by risks
that we would not begin to dare to calculate,
much less contemplate accepting as an everyday reality.

Bob Dylan was wealthy when he wrote the lyric
'When you got nothing, you've got nothing to lose,
you're invisible, you've go no secrets to conceal.'*
berating an unknown young and shallow socialite
but logically he was right,
though such poverty is like death
-anyone who has been there
finds it hard to want to report
to those who have not been there
how they survived it.

 *from the song 'Like A Rolling Stone',
which like every song Bob Dylan has written
in the past 60 years is now the intellectual property
of the Universal Music Publishing Group,
he reportedly sold the songs to the company
for a nine figure sum, in December 2020.
Maybe he was more generous than usual
with his Christmas gifts that year,,,,,,