NO LONGER A ZAGWE
Sailors ate no lemons,
Limey became their demons,
A diet without fruits,
A diet devoid of roots,
Bleeding gums,
Redness of gums,
Weak & sore arms,
In a month without Vitamin C,
Lime juicer we see.
Diet devoid of iodine,
Solved by fruits rich in iodine.
-Namisi D. 2022-
Manilik and the other sailors followed the old man inside the room serving as a store. There were several long and wide wooden shelves constructed horizontally on the three sides of the room. On each shelf was a different type of fruit and vegetable.
It was hard to imagine that a room in a back alley was loaded with all these fruits and vegetables. There were: carrots, cabbages, bananas, oranges, pineapples, avocadoes, cucumbers, red pepper, soursop, watermelons, tomatoes, onions, garlic, ginger, sweet potatoes, cassava, yams, and even rare fruits such as olives, grapes were there.