Tim Barrus Blog
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I WANT THE PHOTOGRAPHS TO HAVE SOMETHING OFF KILTER SOMETHING STRANGE
You would be incinerated. You were not beamed up. Your molecules would heat, expand, and turned into a sea of electrons. There would not be much evidence that you had ever been here. The only question that remained open for Homo sapiens was one that asked Why Are You Here.…
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It’s About the Red as an Icon Justine Explodes From His Clothes
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I lived across the street from the bar. Poetry night was on Thursdays.
I was very cautious of becoming recognizable in public. A few people knew who I was. Not many. Not well. Not on purpose. I cruised around the world on a tall sailing ship. The HMS Fantome. The Prince of Wales. Royalty will get you everything. Adolfo came around and snarled.…
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photo shoot of accidents
The dogs and I have left the house. Photo shoot at Paton Park. Baseball field. I forgot to power up the GoPro. Try doing this with two dogs.
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Tim Barrus Response NYT Ross Douthat
I am a communist. Capitalism is confused. These ideas will be too radical for Gatekeepers. Because the ideas are the truth. Gatekeepers will never see Appalachia for what it is. A place apart. Not the candy cane Instagram Place Apart. But a Harder Truth. Executions in WV were all hanging…
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The wind. The summer. And the Sandman.
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Tim Barrus: Getting Out of Dodge Again
Half a million Fentanyl deaths in one year alone. There’s your sacred America.
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Tim Barrus: They All Grew Up
Carnival was almost done. I am a communist. I am impotent. Mark Warren called. I have autism. Make it go away. I see timelines and angels. I listen to the voice of the people who have taken up residency inside my head.
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Tim Barrus: Beware Of Their Tongues
The rich like it rough.
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Tim Barrus: It’s Always War
I am a communist. Communism is always dead meat in the slaughter house of survival. How can an ally, an accomplice, a comrade, bro. Even be an ally when the ally is in repose. Dead informants are not informing, or maybe, with their deaths, they are. The analogy is a…