Tim Barrus Blog
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Tim Barrus In the New York Times
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TRUMP’S NANNY
No one goes to the issue of mental health. Fear is relevant. If any of the rest of us exhibited overt threats and claims and lies and the puffing up of the chest to assert power over class, public policy, Constitution, Congress, Supreme Court, Federal Reserve, porn stars,…
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Tim Barrus in the New York Times
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HIV clinics, here in Appalachia, often have no doctors on the premises. Doctors are expensive and are seen as a luxury. On a good day.
These are not good days. It feels like the 1980s all over again. With HIV, your health is inherently precarious, and when the systems that…
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Dorm
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i would sit in the dormroom chair, it was not comfortable/ watching you masturbate/ we never talked about it/ we avoided it/ never exloring our own roles and participation in it/ that fire sale was not extinguished/ i no longer sit in the dormroom chair watching you masturbate/ sometimes, we…
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A Deviant’s Morning Eyes
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the way it unfolded was not unlike the way it always unfolds/
we are at opposite ends of a picnic table/ six feet apart/ but connecting/
boats in the immediate distance bobbing about on the water smelled of rich people somewhere else/
i am sitting with andrew as the dew…
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No Cock No Cure No Compatibility
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Tim Barrus in the New York Times
I wish I could, but I am unable to share in the idea of idealism. There is no real evidence – only the anecdotal – to indicate we as a culture will not fail. We have already failed. We failed to elect a…
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Signs
Any relationship requires work.
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Tim Barrus In the New York Times
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TRUMP IS THE MEDIA’S FETISH
Never mind the mask. It is simply accoutrement. I want to imply the word fetish. Trump is the media’s fetish.
The media’s fetish for covering Trump is not simply covering Trump. It is covering lies with the excuse that lies are news. Lies are not…
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LUNGS
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Washhouse
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We do 10 loads of laundry every day. If we wear stuff twice & use towels twice (or 3 times) we cut that 2 eight loads. We have worn out many machines. We go 2 what we call the Washhouse. It Gets Crowded. Today, it’s empty. U cannot acquire a…
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Quarantined Boys
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#Does that mean sex, too.”
#Sex, too,” I explained. “It’s just another virus, not at all unlike the one you have.”
There was a long silence among the boys.
One disease could take more than we thought we could handle. Two was an abstraction.
We do get out at night.…