“I can’t do my homework. I
have work, at home.”
We worked and worked and
worked, but no matter how many
hours we put in, the business kept
losing money. We lost everything.
We couldn’t even afford real food.
There was one month I’ll never
forget, the worst month of my life.
We were so broke that for weeks we
ate nothing but bowls of marogo, a
kind of wild spinach, cooked with
caterpillars. Mopane worms, they’re
called. Mopane worms are literally
the cheapest thing that only the
poorest of poor people eat. I grew
up poor, but there’s poor and then