The only way forward is to split the poverty atom

Oh yes, I am becoming more boring and repetitive. I cannot put this down to age. It is my increasing obsession with finding the way to end poverty . 

I used to be so fresh and entertaining. In bed with hundreds of vital thinkers who had come up with some magic solution to homelessness that would lift a handful, a hundred, a thousand out of homelessness and poverty . But as the cold decades oozing failure passed I had to admit that being part of a clever bunch of activists who had come up with some bright ideas lost its lustre.

We were nothing more than some bright light in a sea of darkness. Whatever we did we never went mainstream. We showed all our fellow enterprising brothers and sisters how we avoided trying to get rid of poverty by coming up with yet another new bright sparkli