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Spiritual Gonzo

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Inner Projection
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It's inborn,
something like a gnat
buzzing and nipping,
buzzing, nipping at your
ears, nose, teeth, gums.
And you without your arms.

Buzzing, buzzing, buzzing.

You've felt it since
you were able to ask for things,
but never could put it into words.
It gnaws at most inopportune times:
Lazing Sunday hammock swings,
trinket trips to Kabul and Maldives,
beach dreams in St. Martin and Belize.

It's a tirade at joy's grand entrance,
glacial walls of stunning failure
at peak times of success.

It's the milkman replacing
fulls with empties, the
paperboy delivering news containing only comics.
And you can only stutter,
I've got to ask . . . ask . . .

Instead, you
turn on the TV,
pour a drink,
phone a friend for some trivia reverie.

A poem that was originally submitted as part of my graduate thesis. Here it is again in all its glory. (OK, so it's one of my favorites. Enjoy!)

Jeff is CEO of  InnerProjection.com: working with students and parents using the proprietary Success, Design and Preparation system creating a plan to ensure being of the 30% of college grads who don't waste 10 to 15 years or leave 100s of thousands of dollars on the table.

Previous 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. Michagan who needed material for her ventriloquism act. He then moved to Los Angeles to do more stand up, but found being a college professor more fulfilling. He's married with 3 children.

Looking for a fast paced, fun, inspirational read?: Black Body Radiation and the Ultraviolet Catastrophe (Amazon.com).

 






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» left by Dianne Lehmann from Dewey, AZ (282 days 4 hours ago.)
Reader Rating: 5 out of 5
Hi Jeff.
 
This is a great poem. So what is that unexpressed longing?
 
Dianne

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» left by Jeff Brown (9,340)
Jeff Brown
(282 days ago.)

Why it's that old Spiritual Gonzo, of course! Knowing, knowing, knowing, that you're spiritual stuff but you ignore the truth. Peace.
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