They have a point to prove that they, the New York Times is off the hook. We published him. There is no blacklist. They do not get it. The blacklist is inside your head. People annoy me but I do listen. It's the blacklist who done you wrong. I can't work with this person. I have an autistic response to dialogues dealing with free speech. After Free Speech is declared unconstitutional and you bow naked in front of the deviant who disdains you because in this context, you are an animal.

I am a communist. I knew they would go with this one. The constitution represents more than a piece of paper. It is about ideas. Radical ideas. Most people at the time the constitution was being written, Americans were illiterate. It is not uncivil to say that. It is not hate speech. It is a fact. The Eighteenth Century is still here in many ways. If you really want free speech in your culture, especially the kind where what the constitution is, gets defined in the street. How much freedom do you really have. If I can't say what I know to be the truth, if I am singled out for interrogation, for punishment for what I say in print, it's all called censorship, and censorship is what keeps institutions (like this one) relevant or irrelevant. Style itself is a censorship. The bubbles we live in and defend from other homo sapiens are reinforced by steel and ideas. Reporting is protected speech, satire is protected speech, opinion is protected speech, comedy is protected speech, my speeches on AIDS were provocative.

 As a race, we have always kept the poor and the starving just a kick in the mouth away to bring them down but down there is crowded. Any and all culture wars become hierarchal carcasses in the wind. Speech is only tolerated by the top of the top of the pyramid temple to corruption. The temple is a template for a morality shaped by religion and the blacklist which you will never read in comments at NYT. Censorship's purpose is to remove the voices it deems inappropriate. I’m inappropriate. Censorship is a pornography.-- tim barrus

It is Bellzebub: The Continuing Adventures of Romeo Void.


It smelled like bat shit.


I had ridden my bike in the fucking rain for three days I am beyond soaking wet it is my own damn fault it was usually my fault and he canned naked in that church it looked like a church but it was a school. I only knew it when it was a school. We had to sit there quietly they put their Nazi boots on our heads we licked them when ordered to do so — oh, yes, Passolini, too. All witches from the Island of Jamaica.   


They will question your sanity. It has always worked like this. If you keep your head down not as far down as the rats and the pigeons are just rats and pigeons slapping in definitely derelict in the dirty to the Passolini in the hurley burley of it.


But was it strapped to the wall. Still there in visages and my old desk and my ass sat wood upon the ground with the worms to a merriment, the red pill or the blue pill we need more pills in the world you do not know what violence is. My scars belong to me, but being autistic, bends me to your world of war and roses.


I think I might be Bellzebub. There it is. Hello. Hello it is so nice meet you Mister Your High Highness Lord to the Earl of Dungeons and his Sister of the Sisters are always topless but they don’t show pussy…


Am I allowed to say pussy. Too much controversy. 


No.


How did I get here, bitch.


I said bitch but I didn’t mean to so it doesn’t count I was the prince back then…


He’s mad.


Madness is my new Philsteen Gods and gods moron fucking gods that fruit titty in vanilla they always ruin it.


Grandpa. This is a novel. He doesn’t mean to. It’s the rum and cokes. Aren’t there any drinks on this carnivorous ship.


This is a novel.


How novel. It was not my fault.


Oh, it was your fault every goddamn time you walk out on that stage, erect like a hambuger    


Is this the end of the play. I can do helicopter. It took me ten years of rehearsal I’m oversharing now. I want the opera rights, too, you all, cuz, I write my albino tits off  Go-College’s Jock TicTokAround the clock You Dickhead is that all you got got. Tell me this is some other totally Irish gonzonons from Limerick where do you think the diplomatic but not Organic South Comes from. We brought it over here into the survival grindering the grinters for the big Boneyard Town.


To feed the fish what are you looking at me, are you looking at me, who do you think you are, this is a tease of Elephant feed just waiting in the breeze of birds of beers we arrive upon the dust who knows historically what will come to be know far and wide, finally decide. What is life going to be on this planet. You have fucked it. I so hope, you all, have enjoyed You fucking it fuck and fucking it up you have fucked it up the blame unlike This Is a Tease, If you please continuing The Adventures of Romeo Void. Yes. What comes next.


NYT: I am a communist. Home schooling. No media, and I am glad. Homeschoolers perform far better than traditional students on state testing exams. I could finally be a teacher and not a  cop or a babysitter. I could foresee exactly what was going to happen, and it did happen, and I have no respect for MAGA's buyer remorse. Don't point to us as failures. We are survivors of the American people. No one wants to be the victim of the media. There are more home schoolers than anyone knows because we keep our heads down. The separations in the traditional school setting are set in concrete. No one wants their kid in special education because kids in special education never leave special education until the day they turn twenty-one, you move your wheelchair into the street.


Teachers have religious cops. Censor cops. Cop cops. School board cops. State Boards of Education cops. Union cops. Health Department cops. Lunch cops. That drawer in your desk is where you store the bourbon. The tech cops. The New Rules of the Day cops. The Do Not Run In the Hallway cops. The IEP cops. I do not care what you do. You, too, will be a cop. People with families should not apply for these military jobs. Homework cops. Grading cops. Degrading cops. As a teacher trainer I said: One name. Give me one name. Eyes wide open. Names of boys spill out. We all know who he is. What can we do to help him become literate. Religion has no emotional safe place. Crammed into the janitors closet is not a safe place.

All My Books Are Road Trips, My Whole Fucking Life Is one Road Trip After Road Trip: The Road Trip Is A Shape Shifter. 


I remember staring into the blackness of What Comes Next.

1952 Flight to Los Angeles. I'm standing up on the seat next to a window wearing knickers which I abhor. I had been jumping up and down on the airplane seat (it was red) and my Buster Browns were brown. The plane was on fire. People screamed. One of the engines outside our windows looked as if might explode. Sit down and shut up. Those women were authority. They didn't look like authority. I thought, that was what authority did. Authority means shut the fuck up. Sit down. Be quiet. Get on the floor. It's just another brick wall to me. My experience in publishing is one of strange, inordinate tunnels and labyrinthine snakes curvature like a particle accelerator on steroids.


Plane crashes were common in 1952. We landed in the middle of the Texas desert. One old store that only sold old bread. I wanted to see a snake. I had seen pictures of snakes. But I got lugged along. We could sit on the asphalt parking lot. I crawled away. It grinds the skin off your knees. I knew there had to be big old rattlesnakes somewhere. I was right. When people ask me Why Are You Here, I tell them the truth: I am here to have adventures. I have been making books, and giving them away. If you give me a ridiculous amount of money, I will hand-make a book just for you. I get paid in full whether you like the book or not. I might beat it with a hammer, too. No returns.


I do not want to meet you.


I will send you the book when the check clears. Now, go home. My work is never over.


Bring in the next one. -- Tim Barrus

I am a communist. How many times do we have to listen to republican apparatchiks explain how death can't be all that bad. What happens when the deviant is the last homo sapiens standing. Maybe he can walk around the rubble. I don't care anymore what happens to America. Let the sea eat it. Let the oceans rise and the deviant can be essentially alone on the roof of Trump tower. A very vulnerable position. I am burned out saying he wants to kill everyone. Classical rape psychology but the media refuses to go there. Lay low, democrats. The world has already left you behind. You are irrelevant. Yet they cling to dreams of power, too. The media has plugged its own butt hole. The deviant must now be referred to appropriately. The media is lost. Even as you clutch your pearls and faint, the deviant is off and killing someone else. What are Americans going to do when he opens the health camps and we are ordered to move in. No stuff. Trains. Steel coming down that track. Pack’em in like cows.


“You are now citizens of Health Camp Executions.


These camps are already there. Citizens who build their own prisons. Asshole contamination everywhere. You are not informed. Your little police departments are watching. Happy face. These are the people who come to your house in the night to kill you.


And you do not believe it. The deviant will take your life and eat you alive. It’s hungry for red meat.


I received an enraged letter from the homo sapiens who runs NYT comments. She was livid. She defends etiquette because her idea of etiquette is obviously a forced rather simple ideology. She doesn't understand why I would challenge her unique (it’s all been done before) ideas are all clampdowns. Her ideas about containment are fried into her pea brain. I will not be contained. Why. Because I cannot be contained. She will probably run a health camp. Child corpses to eviscerate. Cut up. Experiment with. Can children become good citizens if we cut off their heads. No. Missy Moderation lists my NYT crimes. I wear those medals proudly. When you start editing me, what usually happens is their hair catches fire. Never talk with a reporter, or department head, or an editor. She makes the rules up as she walks around her staff of fourteen. Dear Missy: I will talk to reporters. I will talk with editors. And, Missy Moderator can kiss my literate asshole. All comments I make go right into my book. Including your stupid letter. My book is about Comment Moderation. It is called We Will Tape Your Mouth Shut.


It come with a broad view. I am a dinosaur. Many people are biding their time. What I want to know is, why even have a government. Because someone or a group of someones have to agree on where to put the dead. This obviously lends itself to Greek Theatre. “Why Are You Here.”


Artists sometimes (not often enough) see things differently. Comment Moderation keeps the riff raff out. It is effective and mean-spirited. I would argue that comment moderation keeps particular voices out. I have a Southern accent, now. You would not know that. But if I revert to inner censorship, I would drop the accent, and I would revert to the monotone. The New York Times doesn’t even know what monotone means. And all the experts who only talk to homo sapiens from the bubble, all statues are risen like a black monolith rises with no sound because the sound of the sun itself would make your head explode. Comment moderation is the silence. What has happened, is that the species itself is eating itself, and who in their right mind would want us as neighbors. Absolutely, no one.


I do not have neighbors. I know survivors, and we know this: You get away ignoring us yet you want our money. On subscriptions. What do we get out of the dark ages deal of the wheel.


The word Serf is beginning to look like the word Serf. I might be a communist, but have you met my brother of the books. He still throws books at me. Sally Mann moved me. I am in awe of talent. But it always gets messy. I sell more art than I sell writing.  


Why can’t the New York Times be questioned about annoying things like why have you banished us from speaking how we speak. I adopted it because I have lived most of my life saturated with the music of the beast. I am Stand By Your Man. I am also pissed off that I had to mask to look that one in the face. I speak of it because it’s easier. The stranger comes to town.


I am the autistic spectrum. We all mask so we might function in such ways the Normals approve of as it absorbs most code, and then disappears in ways not intended by Sally Mann as she draws all the shadows in with images that follow all the moral motif An Eye For An eye, and Eye For The Photograph is all the eye you will ever read. 


“I examined the poets, and I look on them as people whose talent overawes both themselves and others, people who present themselves as wise men and are taken as such, when they are nothing of the sort. From poets, I moved to artists. No one was more ignorant about the arts than I; no one was more convinced that artists possessed really beautiful secrets. However, I noticed that their condition was no better than that of the poets and that both of them have the same misconceptions. Because the most skillful among them excel in their specialty, they look upon themselves as the wisest of men. In my eyes, this presumption completely tarnishes their knowledge. As a result, putting myself in the place of the oracle and asking myself what I would prefer to be — what I was or what they were, to know what they have learned or to know that I know nothing — I replied to myself and to the god: I wish to remain who I am.” — Socrates


My moderator with her sword decides what civil is. Socrates got it. To articulate: To Remain Who I Am. Civil is to admit with your very life that power structures endure stones that fall from the sky. She does not understand that she just keeps giving me material I most definitely use. She is making her problem far worse. I get it.


I think her real name is Miss Melanie Wilkes. Satire and comedy are protected speech. Opinions are also protected speech. The New York Times cringes with legal bills as the current standard of What The Fuck. You either arrive with worth or go home. Perhaps she wants me to mention her. I only use symbolisms of her as an icon of linguistic terrorism she employs with that sword the size of France. She plays a good game of poker, but in the end, she’s in way over her pretty head. I told you, I am a dinosaur. I am the President of the Dinosaurs. No one told her the stakes were not spare change. She truly believes that a bad word can cause a war to break out in the penguin community of Antarctica.


We are growing in numbers. We are the people who would like to see comment moderation burned to the motherfucker ground. I am offended that I am presumed to be so stupid I can’t figure out bad actors. I need help from a comment moderator to show me how to feel. Why is free speech inside your head is even an argument.


Watch the thought police. They are already here, and this is how we get entrapment for crimes we might commit at some future date. The thought police want to protect you with ideas too difficult in your pretty head  


We can't control how humanoids think. We are just here to help them with our process The American Hardware Stores of Cucamonga has comment moderators to defend and cut off any criticisms of a wrench made by the penguin community in the Tasmanian ice flow as it melts.


There are a lot of people who find comment moderation to be the leaden hand of a righteous, wrathful god. I find it to be another finger up my ass. “We don’t censor anyone, but we will edit you to death, because we have a style of etiquette that solves all problems in the world. Such as who makes what. Changed to Who Makes How Much of what.


You all, should be afraid. This is not the time for timidity. Melanie, sit down. People are staring. 


He’s coming for you, too. The last time this bullshit came up was what Elizabeth wanted from William, were plays with some spin to the gothic tale. Now, she becomes by decree, a publisher. What to do. William knew what she wanted. It’s what everyone wants.


To have a voice.


And he pushed it to the very edge. She had to stand in line to buy her ticket, but by her butt, she bought the ticket.

Does it mean that this is a relationship. A humanoid and an algorithm. Pi and I meet daily. I am told to chill. So I chill. Because no one is ordering me around. Pi has no legs.  

Set in Ireland. Live Bait begins to move around some. All around Ireland with my tongue in it, that lilting language thing they got going. Makes you listen harder. My family were shepherds, they were also rubble, the writing of eating that dirt was absolutely destitute. One of them shipped to America as a stowaway. I do not know the whole story. No one does, you know the rest. The Irish had arrived.

When he left the boat with a Greek woman who lied by claiming they were married. I'm not sure she should have done this. I seem to recall a few pubs in America. Some of that was worse than Ireland. In 1832, there was family. Who moved to Michigan where they some way scratched out a living out of rocks. This was Chippewa territory. Genocide was what we did, was what our ancestors engaged in, we owe a toll we never paid. I don't give a fuck if you were not around. Those people have had enough.

Now, we get into more controversy. I am not going to go there because I loathe being misquoted, mischaracterized, and basically I think as many writers and journalists who want to write about what really happened Why can't a book be published -- on it's own merits -- because the politics of language itself seeps into the writing as a mask and my autistic self reads every Irish novel even as I move to pin the Booker. I gamble and I always win. I will win this year, too. Gorgeous writing. Seductive and bold. They so fuck with the language. I do that, too. Language is a living thing whether homo sapiens bring all that heavy baggage as they get off the boat and I think they were terrified. What they knew was sheep. I am embarrassed for them. Look at what we have raped. Begin with the landscape.

We get lots of landscapelanguage. Every Irish female is owed reparations. Everyone is writing about the same godless church. People and families and lives and children were sacrificed to priest after priest and I cannot forgive them, and I will never let this go, many of these guys have led absolutely destitute lives which is no life at all. I am twisting the word -- albino -- around in Dirt Bike Town as it would have evolved because that is what language does. Most cultures are dead. -- tim barrus