Tim Barrus Blog
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
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I grab nostalgia in a death grip. I slam it in my writing. I have no choice. When I’m not writing, I go mad. When I am not involved with photography, I go mad. When I don’t have either one, I shut down. I rock. I become catatonic. Nostalgia is…
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YouCannot AlwaysHave AReason
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Mojave Motel
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I never knew him to not be armed. Heavily armed. His “the Life” guns were the Big Girl guns that were always on sale if you wanted to go that high which was kind of ridiculus because now you were in the territory where this shit was kept that could…
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Little Baby
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The Woods Of Us
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We had no empathy, no connection, no way to say to the men who raped us: “You raped us.” We only had rage for the women who enabled it. It was like walking around naked with ankle shackles. Why. I know all the serious theories. I know the psych profiles.…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
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NOW, YOU KNOW
You did not know until he came over — you hadn’t seen him in months — that it had been all about his tits. You did not know you could still ejaculate. Now, you know.
No one ever leaves, and returns, to find the place you left.…
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what wind will hold for tomorrow’s whispers of a snare of sky
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The Boy Who Wore Pajamas
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It was a direct threat to them because he wore pajamas to sleep in and it was – about class– versus nakedness which is what the other boys hang out in. He wore pajamas because it was about fighting back. If you wear pajamas, no one will fuck you because…
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the field
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The gravitational field is more than just a region of influence within time and space. The gravitational field is spacetime. There was no one on the swings.
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THERE ARE TWO KINDS OF JOCKS
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REGULAR JOCKS (NOT PICTURED HERE). AND GOOFY JOCKS. (PICTURED HERE).