Pretty much my whole adult life
I’ve been more or less semi-retired
A full-time undergraduate and grad
Student and the poverty and the freedom
Writing and performing music
Writing and researching papers and theses
Bipolar disorder’s attenuated capacities
Avolition and crippled will to persevere
Those week-ends asleep in bed—
The weekend through: Friday till Monday morning
Those lost weekends
A post-doctoral funk and bad jobs
Part-time teaching and poverty
Writing and publishing a book and journal articles
Music and poetry and bad jobs
A good job preaching, a calling, and full-time pay
Recording a CD of my originals and poetry and newspaper bylines
Volunteer positions and committees and seminar presentations
All for joy and no pay
Pretty much semi-retired and all of it
David Fekete 