“I make do. Don’t worry about me,” he insisted. “I’m nobody’s charity case, lady.”
Which is why he is eating in a soup kitchen.
Clark had said that to her once,

she is thinking of Clark.
“See that guy over there,” Bobby had whispered. “But don’t look! Aw… Jack, you looked.
Jack is still new to surviving on the streets.
His one regret was not asking Bobby about the Luthor House for Homeless Children before he and Denny had gone there.
If Lois had met Bobby sooner season 1 would have gone so much better.
but the truth was he had also used it as an excuse to avoid his own problems.

that he is away from Lois.