Tim Barrus Blog
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WHAT DOES THE WORD RADICAL EVEN MEAN
Good morning from the Blue Ridge mountains,I lied. Was Punished. I only look at noses. You think I am engaged with you while we are talking but I am not seeing you, I can eliminate the visions of crowds. They disappear. The world is numb. I’m not engaged with you.…
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A Memory So Dim it Singes in the Lower Sky
Here. With Many Others. One quiet house. Grief becomes sleep. As if led by omens.
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Tim Barrus: My Rooms Above The Dodge
My rooms were above the Dodge. In Dodge. In a dry and dreamtime land of whiteboys and trucks and those boys really do believe the earth was made just for them. What white boys know of life sits alone itself in Chinatown, strange. Just outside of town, a huge pit…
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Autism Spectrum We Do Not Know That Much About the Brain Although We Pretend We Do. Rubbish.
What was it like when you were a kid.
They all go there. Sooner or later.
I was a straight A student who supported his family. At thirteen.
At fourteen I knew I would shoot myself.
I did.
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Tim Barrus: I Rode My First Dirt Bike At Age Six
Because we were White Trash. My buzzed head with the bad teeth and dinner was candy. My buzzed head and with the Bud for lunch. My buzzed head glowed in the dark catching worms.
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Tim Barrus: Dirt Bike Town
Selling Film and Book Rights
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TIM BARRUS: SELLING FILM AND BOOK RIGHTS
I live in Dirt Bike Town. Where the saw dust and the oil and the bales of hay and all the old men (younger than me) lean up against the fence to feel just a bit of it, not unlike the wind through the creaky oaks, the mud, and I…
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Tim Barrus: Vietnam Town
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Tim Barrus, Publishing and Me
I just sent this to a literary agency. Because I love publishing. Actually, I love books. I owe you an apology. I’m on Facebook, but I never see it. I don’t want to see it. So I saw this agency on Twitter. Apparently on Facebook, if you hit return the…
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Boycott New York Times Comments
I am a communist. The culture war is not over. Seriously. We DO need two countries. Let them HAVE the South. Let us be RID of them you know who they are. They want their own way of life. Let them have it. Then, we get to build a wall.…