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Grammar modified for the new context outside of the poem. The meaning of this poem. Home is always a safe place and we'd never leave our home, unless it was something terrible, hence the metaphor "mouth of a shark." The next line has a similar meaning. You only leave the city when the whole world seems to leave; only leave comfort when other people are leaving the comfort too.
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