Who Fears Death

He loved to make the metal bend, to obey him.

She thought of the Palm Wine Drunkard in the Great Book. All he lived for was to drink his sweet frothy palm wine. When one day his expert palm wine tapper fell from a tree and died, he was distraught. But then he realized if his tapper was dead and gone, then he must be somewhere else. And so the Drunkard’s quest began.

“We’re dead but we won’t die out here, those of us still breathing.”