Death is a ghost That haunts mankind; It enters the body, Releases the soul. Speaking of mankind's struggle for immortality in the face of an inexorable fate, these apocalyptic verses take us from individual death to the end of the world - via a biblical antichrist figure, Mr X, or through man's own scientific legacy. They force the reader to ask the question: will man's quest to live for ever, one way or another, erase humanity itself?