Pauvre

Perhaps I should stop saying I'm poor. It feels like part of my definition, but I don't know where that comes from. I have known very very few truly poor people in my life, and I am not one of them. I am thrifty, aware, perhaps unable to afford a trip or to justify new shoes, but not poor. If I think I'm poor now, what if I really were? If I think I'm poor now, wouldn't I feel the same as a millionaire?

A boat in D.C. 2012.

Besides, poor in what?

You're impossible to resist,
but I wouldn't bet your heart on it.