A Short Note on Poverty

LL

Poverty. He got it in the neck so to speak on social media, didn't he. So did you. I guess you deserved it as all you do is post photos of meals. Can't believe your intellect only goes as far as your stomach. I recall you were a little brighter than that in our time together. Not brilliant, but better. If you had been brilliant you would never have been caught out! :))

I have been in New York writing this, mainly enjoying ourselves - let's say 90% - the other 10% was a meeting yesterday with my literary agent and publisher. Books keep flowing from my finger tips and money keeps flowing from the books. Not that I need it. Referring back to poverty briefly, we have a foundation set up whose aim is to alleviate poverty in the US. Charity begins at home, and this country and one of its citizens, my wife, has been very good to me and for me.

You would love it here...for a few days. Even more if you were with someone who knew their way around and had an upmarket apartment. You once knew someone like that but lost him.

Looking forward to September and Spain again? We off on our travels from here in an hour or two. Friends to catch up with a places to see.

I still think of you fondly in terms of the first year we were together, notwithstanding that in Spring of 2004 you revealed your first misdemeanor inadvertently. After that I was very wary although I didn't show it. You weren't committing - I don't think you ever can - and I was not into waiting for someone I couldn't trust. Now of course you are trapped by your own decision, by age and to a certain extent by fear. I actually feel sorry for where you have ended up against where you could have ended up.

In a way you suffer from poverty - poverty of the emotional kind. Bereft of a man who truly loves you.