Tim Barrus Blog
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The British Want to Be The Greeks
I am a communist. The other. I understand what I see is radically different from what you see is true. What is apology. What are reparations. I got pinned to the wall in an Esquire interview. Making the claim I was cravenly indifferent. I apologized. I will be sorry to…
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Some Will Some Won’t
I am a communist. You could always hear us coming down the hall. Kids looking around for codes and secret signs. We all do that anyway. Kids are kids on a good day. “But he had a rainbow on the door.” My ideas about health care begin with having the…
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Charlene Worked at Waffle House
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Bikes On Pause
We came home late last night on the bikes. The dogs barking. This morning, the bikes were on the ground, fallen over. I picked them up and parked them. I think maybe we just left them there, ourselves. It was that kind of night. Corn should be coming in soon…
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Make Sure To Park Close To The Door
High school boys stare. They do not know about multiples. They like the bike. They are not sleeping in a sleeping bag on the ground tonight. Andrew was a stripper. The good ones are dancers, too. Lap dance. I came in my pants. We hung out with whores. They sold…
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sometimes you sell whatever you have to survive and you and I both know that it can always get deeper and deeper
Your bones away in there.
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Dirt Bike Town
Mainly, they would pay us if we allowed them to suck our dicks. What you see could be prostitution. What I see is homelessness. I knew one trick who used to take me to his house where he fucked me in his son’s bed. I saw a picture of this…
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The Ides Of August
That comes before the swallows ride the hot winds up was innocence for innocence.
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BONDAGE
I never really got photographers who had to control everything from light to grain on TriX. I just slept-walked through it. Most professions have rituals I just don’t get. My brain refuses to conceed that what they do is important. But it has to be. Because they do it. And…
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All the Dead Generations
And then it inspires awe. No one knows why.