"I feel sad and weak all the time," said Mercy.
"This is no way to live," said Mercy Mbiza, 38.
Almost half of that, says Mercy, goes on food alone.
He accepts violence as a detail of state, he says mercy is not his affair with men, yet he is kind to dumb animals….
An Isis man who was in a white Afghan dress holding a big sword said to me: "Do you want anything?" I said: "Mercy".
"Things," says Mercy Qansah, as a young goat bounces by in search of rubbish to chew on, "are not the way we expected them to be".
"I never thought I would see this day," said Mercy Gachiri, 42, who slept in Uhuru Park to get a good view of the hand-over ceremony.
But fear and a desire to punish, which disabled the judgments of many in the government after 9/11, are emotions, too, and even harder to control than, say, mercy.
Mr. Barnicle said Mercy had prepared to invest in advertising to spur fund raising, but that the early response was so tepid, it was concerned it would be a waste of money.
