PART TWO

Things are exactly what they appear to be, just not what you think they appear to be.

—Adofo, from the

Seventh Pan-African Address

 

You mean you remember.

No, I mean when my loved ones slip away from this life
they continue to live with me.
Just as you are the spirit of many,
so am I.
What you do with technology
nature has done through love since the mind began.

—Joseph Rex,

Poe’s Mission, Book I