She sells fish
I sell foreign currency loans
her office is by the roadside
next to a cream building
mine is on the 8th floor
second to last floor of the cream building
her main competitors are the other hawkers next to her
mine are in other buildings spread all over
this concrete jungle called Lagos
I can tell her what determines the price she has to pay
for a ton of fish inventory
I can tell her how her selling price
is limited by cheaper imports from Europe and North Africa
But of what use?
she is in no position to change anything
and despite my knowledge and education
neither am I
she has bliss in her ignorance
I have pain in my knowledge
