Tim Barrus Blog
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Withdrawal
we both knew withdrawal would be a real bitch the shivering blankets and blankets soaking up the sweat the hallucinations are coming
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Going Broke
We met Cherry Ester in a school shelter during the flood that arrived directly after Hurricane Michael knocked into us like a punching bag. Appalachia gets punched again and again. Hurricane Florence had just engulfed us like a shipwreck a week ago. We had yet to recover and the hurricanes…
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What Really Happened
1. I had just come off of two years on the Navajo Nation. I was deeply affected by the issue of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. It had been in my face those entire two years. 2. One night, I went to bed. 3. I woke up several months later, and was…
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Philanthropy Is Just Another Tired Old Lie
The first grant I ever worked with was from the Ford Foundation. And then… What do I need. Today. The past for me is so abstract that turning around to look at it takes away my energy that I need to face what will be coming at me tomorrow. I… -
NYT: We Are Animals
http://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/27/opinion/pittsburgh-squirrel-hill-shooting-synagogue.html?comments#permid=29190900 Thing is, Americans, too, are animals. Not in a hateful sense. Americans are Hominidae. Family. Optimism. Dreams. Faith. These are not things I know anything about. Mayhem. Murder. Cruelty. Hatred. Assault. Rape. Addiction. Young boys doing sex work. Sorrow. Death. Grim. Repellent. Cops. Killing. War. War. War. This is…
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TEACHING READING
Why Are We Still Teaching Reading the Wrong Way? http://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/26/opinion/sunday/phonics-teaching-reading-wrong-way.html?comments#permid=29181404
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4the12
I have conducted an educational study whose results were released today by the National Association of SexWork Bois. Our results clearly indicate that after self-measuring instruments were employed by elves to measure YouKnowWhats, SexWork Bois had bigger Uknows by 12 inches. Why. Do I appear to be the Shell Answer…
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The Bondage of Homelessness
Almost all of the men who contact me with requests that I tie them up and jack them off are doing so because they know I am homeless (the trick always has to lord it over the proverbial whore) and used to be the writer who got them off. Celebrity…
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I HAVE ALWAYS KEPT YOU OUT OF IT
because i do not want to deal with your anger i used to be able to ignore it too many sleeping bags ago every story has a twin or a thousand of them we never even once fucked on a bed keeping our fantasies grounded it was about your ass…
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Homelessness Is Hell: Barrus: NYT
A Response to David Brooks in the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/opinion/america-nationalism-diversity-trump.html?comments#permid=29166007 Here’s a question. Is it okay to unequivocally hate America with every molecule of the self. I doubt it. Our idea of what freedom is does not allow the kind of dissent that doesn’t, and never will, fit into…