If Only You Enjoyed Disaster

One way to be elusive
Is to avoid any news.
Can what you ignore touch you?

It can, and it will, and not
In any way you’ll enjoy.
Better try the other way,

Keeping inconspicuous,
While watching out all the while.
This does give some protection

Against nasty surprises,
At the cost of constant dread.
Or you can just sit and wait,

Be a fool, be contented,
Dread nothing, avoid nothing,
And be humiliated.