Work in progress

I came across Julia Kristeva’s work reading literary studies in the eighties in the same period I developed affection for Roland Barthes. She coined the term ‘intertextuality’. What I like in her psychoanalytical approach is that she allows for the fluidity of the individual. We are all subjects in progress… a work in progress :

So is all
work in progress
the searching for the note
that touches the soul
the words that please a lover
find a friend
the playing of an eight bar blues
in 7,5
knowing there is time
and that in time every beat
will be picked up
brought to a conclusion

There is the mind work
the heart work
the digging in the dirt work
the body work
of animal and child
the wild

So are we all
work in progress