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Jason Kirin

I worship a god with a Rooster head.

About Me

A frankenstein of dead poets who speaks from both mouth and hands. A knave, a rascal, an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking, whoreson, glass-gazing, super-serviceable, finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pander, a prodigal bastard, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch.

I do poems -

My Interests

Juggling, Typewriters, My hands, Beat Boxing, Sumatra, Now, Space, Time, Guitars, Adjectival relationships, collapsing distances between unlike things, Poams, Poems, Poetry, PoAH!try, Slam, Haiku, Sonnet, Clerihew, Vilanalle, Terza Rima, Signed Languages, ASL, Deaf Culture, Etc, Etc, Etc,

I'd like to meet:

You.

And Howard Beale...

Music:

Belle & Sebastian, Tom Waits, Skinny Puppy, King Missile, Billy Pilgrim, Bach, Mozart, Lizst, Chopin, Rachmoninov, Vivaldi, Rancid, Paffendorf, The Smiths, Ashley Macisaac, Bad Religion, BT, Chris Issac, Eminem, Filter, Garth Brooks, Jeff Buckley, John Coltrane, Korn, Leaether Strip, Linkin Park, Lucinda Williams, Misfits, POE, Tenacious D, Wolfsheim, Apoptygma Berzerk, Wumpscut, Agnes Wired For Sound, Maggie Estep and the Spitters, Stabbing Westward, Slipknot, Stereophonics, Regina Spektor, VAST, Ben Harper, Damien Rice.

Television:

Monk. Mad About You. House. Family Guy.

Books:

Demian, Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, Stories of Five Decades, Narcissus and Goldmund - by Hermann Hesse. Death in Venice - by Thomas Mann. Poems - by Rainer Maria Rilke. Poems - by William Butler Yeats. House of Leaves, Only Revolutions, The Whalestoe Letters - by Mark Z. Danielewski. Fight Club, Invisible Monsters, Survivor, Choke, Fugitives and Refugees, Diary, Lullaby etc. - by Chuck Palahniuk. The Great Gatsby - by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Counte of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas. Pleasure Dome, Talking Dirty to the Gods, All Poems - by Yusef Komunyakaa. Dylan Thomas is God. The Most Beautiful Woman in Town, Anything at all - by Charles Bukowski. The Notebook, A Walk To Remember - by Nicholas Sparks. The Professor and the Madman - by Simon Winchester. Poems - by ee cummings. Poems - by Langston Hughes. Poems - by Anne Sexton. Poems - by Johann Wolfgang Goethe. The Yage Letters, Howl, The Sunflower Sutra, Poems - by Allen Ginsburg. Junky, Naked Lunch - by William Burroughs. The Haikus, Bop Prose, On The Road, Poems - by Jack Kerouac. The First Third - by Neal Cassidy. The Wasteland, The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock, Poems - by T.S. Eliot. Women in Love - by D.H. Lawrence.Sept manifestes Dada - by Tristan Tzara. Poems - by William Blake. Get in the Van, Do I Come Here Often?, Black Coffee Blues 1 & 2 - by Henry Rollins. Poems - by Sylvia Plath. The Basketball Diaries - by Jim Carrol. The Big Sleep, Farewell my Lovely, The Little Sister - by Raymond Chandler. The Scorched Face - by Dashiell Hammet. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, So Long and Thanks for all the Fish, etc. - by Douglas Adams. Poems - by Louise Gluck. Poems - by Billy Collins. Poems - by John Lambert. Poems - by Shannon Norman. Poems - by Jenn Bartman. The Seth Material, Seth Speaks, The Nature of Personal Reality, The Way Towards Health, etc. - by Jane Roberts. The Pittsburgh Cycle - by August Wilson. Flats and Riots - by Michelle Stoner.

Heroes:

John Wayne, John Lambert, Logan Shiller, Dr. Gregory House, H.R.C., Howard Beale

My Blog

Why I chose to remove the light paintings -

The light painting technique is a technique that I learned from artist Adam Blai. And when I say that I learned it I mean that I saw all of what he did and simply reproduced the process.Doing this - m...
Posted by Jason Kirin on Sat, 04 Oct 2008 05:41:00 PST

Poem for my students, and my slouch hat.

Scaling the ordinary to the unmundane.My slouch hat sitson the dashboardof the whitedodge caravan that I drive my studentsaround in.Both of us layinglike exhausted dogs in somesummer heat.Waiting for ...
Posted by Jason Kirin on Sat, 27 Sep 2008 08:27:00 PST

Your Smile Reminds Me Of Pain That I Can’t Even Describe.

Your smile reminds me of pain that I can't even describe I believed indirt.As a boya forest andmudmancerSeeking divinationvia army menspent cans ofbeer left bythe boys upstreeta paw printor ...
Posted by Jason Kirin on Fri, 26 Sep 2008 08:06:00 PST

I Lose Faith In My Mouth

I lose faith in mymouthWhen I open it toomuchWhen lips spreadback over gumsI lose faith in mylips. They've said thatwhen your earsburn I'm talkingabout youAnd that yournose itches becauseI am lyi...
Posted by Jason Kirin on Mon, 22 Sep 2008 05:37:00 PST

A Brass Saxaphone (For Dylan Fornoff and Abraxas)

A Brass Saxaphone(For Dylan Fornoff and Abraxas).Abraxas staves his mood heplays his saxophone in a tame and scaleyColtrane refrain. He parallaxes this duality with a note  "From, where I h...
Posted by Jason Kirin on Sat, 20 Sep 2008 03:46:00 PST

Poem for the coward (If hell have it).

In Washington D.CIt is one year into the pasta potted set oflilies bloom starkshading the overside of a citybench. Tossing still dried wasabipeas at pigeonsin Dupont CircleI know your handsover these ...
Posted by Jason Kirin on Fri, 12 Sep 2008 07:10:00 PST

Your Inner Vagabond Poetry Reading Sept 18th

YIV discovers its Inner Beatnik as we continue our FREE monthly poetry & literature series on with a poetry reading that will feature Jason Kirin. Following the reading, other poets, writers &...
Posted by Jason Kirin on Tue, 09 Sep 2008 05:02:00 PST

NYC trip this weekend.

I'll be leaving after work tomorrow night and heading for the Grand Midway Hotel for the night and then am trying to get to New York City by 3pm on Sun.Will be there until Tuesday morning or noonish.A...
Posted by Jason Kirin on Fri, 08 Aug 2008 01:40:00 PST

My metaphoric relationship.

With my motorcycle, Tes, something is wrong - electrically.As if this could be any more apposite, I'm not sure.Look at this photo... ...that ladder, slated, abacus, venetian blinds looking thing, as w...
Posted by Jason Kirin on Fri, 08 Aug 2008 05:40:00 PST

House of Leaves/Poe Spoken Word Album bootleg for you all...

Who has read House of Leaves?Ok - Here's a special for you...Mark Z. and his sister Poe got together and made a, very limited edition, spoken word album called "Don't Be Scared." It was a conglomerate...
Posted by Jason Kirin on Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:44:00 PST