Tim Barrus Blog
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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…
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Tim Barrus: Getting Out Of Dodge Is A Repeated Paradigm of Hide and Seek
“Justin says hi.” I exhaled. I should have been surprised. Imagine the coincidence. I was not surprised. Justin and I had connected in a bus station toilet in Arkansas. The rats only came out at night. I could not sleep there. People do not sleep in Arkansas. They just pull…