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HOW MUCH LAST?

Location: Musa Slaughter, Agbor, Delta State. Woman 1: How much last? (flips meat over) Seller: cow head cost well well. Just buy ordinary meat, take this one for 5000. (A conversation between a meat seller and a buyer. Beef is one of the most common meat types in Nigeria. Maybe not expensive when it is cut up in chunks but believe me, it is worth a lot, whole) So how did we get here? The food chain places humans above cows. We eat the cows, we shit them. Our shit sometimes finds it way to the bushes, the grasses, the vegetation, and another cow eats the grass. They eat nothing special, nothing extra spiced and prepared with love, we do. So how did we get here? A whole cow costs about 60,000 to 150,000 naira depending on size. How much am I worth? If I was placed on a table, for sale, how much would you buy me? Probably for nothing! Because that is what the human life is worth in Nigeria, in Plateau at least. Plateau state is at war, a war it never consented to. Do you know wh...

this is how you heal

This is how you heal, .....    you drink, the froth, ... inhale, the confusion This is how I healed, When my lover ...... Left me ... I drank, the froth, the dregs, the flies and their wings. I drunked on a debt Of happiness. This is how you heal when your lover leaves you, ... You never  Especially when you loved them and they tissued you, When the flame was low.