Jeff Brown

The Poet the Patient



Posted: Wednesday, January 14, 2009

by
Inner Projection

Flourish, burgeon, bloom . . .

What is it in me that shirks
the nail in the sure place? Try as I may
I can't keep the same job, name or address.
The little woman with fishnet nightcap
and blazing green teeth keeps visiting me.
"Omen, you say?
I'm just here to collect the rent."
If I don't comply she'll take a stick
to the back of my knees.



Sometimes I go right home
after losing a job. Other times
I sit on the park bench and consult
the finch or quail. But only as a diversion,
because I'm really waiting for my advisor,
flecked and furled, a bucktoothed sage
of spasms and twitches.
 
He has a gift you know. Amongst his peers
he's won the Pulitzer for most aggressive
indifference. Don't shake your head, I was there
presenting with tears and trembling kisses.
For him I have the highest regard, sitting on hind legs,
expounding a world gone to dogs in high places,
releasing his tail with overbite of mirrored chagrin.
Jeff is a Career, Life, & Mentor coach & CEO of  www.InnerProjection.com: working with students and parents using the proprietary Success, Design and Preparation system creating a plan to ensure his clients are of the 30% of college grads who don't waste 10 to 15 years or leave 100s of thousands of dollars on the table.

Prior to owning Inner Projection, Jeff worked as a computer programmer and in tech. support, but hated it enough to move from his home in Connecticut to do stand up comedy in Boston where he worked with such comics as Bill Burr, Dan Cook, and Billy Martin and wrote for people like Mz. Michigan who needed material for her ventriloquism act. He then moved to Los Angeles to do more stand up, but found being a coach & college instructor more rewarding. He's married with 3 children.
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