Tim Barrus Blog
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Chichén Itzá
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only the earth endures/ bearing upon its awful breast a world that has no ghosts to haunt it/ whipped in the desert/ half broken and overthrown, the lost temples strewn in ruined images, no heads, nothing has been done in stone/ even your family is glad you are dead/ less…
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Voyages en Famille
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Arson
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Blood and Money
you were always leaving
not in an angry tone
but in no tone at all
and then you’d be back
and crawling into bed
most of my kind were
awkward in our peasant
hostility you were with
the boys with money
it all came so easily
for you knowing as…
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INTERVIEWS WITH BOYS WHO DO SEX WORK
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As I interview these kids, there is an undercurrent of arrogance – it is the arrogance of truth speaking to power – and it says you put me here and here I am so don’t you dare whip me with your morality because I know for a fact you have…
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Tim Barrus: New York Times: PrEP Package
It is easier to chose to not have sex than become another rat in the HIV maze.
Constant lab tests, the humiliating exams, the struggle to maintain medical relationships around informed consent (I am always being tested secretly when they take my blood, but I do find out about it…
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U Know What I Mean U Know What I Mean
you burned holes where my eyes had been
the nagual doesn’t have to be the desert
we had it in our hands not knowing anyone
could fall down that vortex and the gravity
of the thing could easily crush diamonds
into the sound of a piano i was the guy…
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I Want To Cum When I See Real Art
The first time I ever came in my pants was at the Louvre. Jean-Baptiste Roman’s statue’s Nisus and Euryalus. Best friends from childhood, both warriors are slain in war. Here, they are naked and fighting off something or someone we cannot see.
Euryalus is dead or dying while Nisus stands…
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Tim Barrus: NYTimes: We Need A Revolution in Art Museums
I work with young adolescent boys at-risk who do sex work and have HIV. Mainly, I teach photography and video art. The traditional museum and the traditional foundation would be appalled by us. Sex work is a crime.
That makes the boys criminals. The issue is actually poverty, and that…
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Your Organizing Abilities
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organizing them
is like putting
together a bunch
of cats in a race
to see which cat
was the fastest
god knows they
do not listen
to me but maybe
it has something
to do with the
bullhorn