Tim Barrus Blog
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you took your shirt off
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CANCER ALLEY
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Cancer Alley” is an 85 mile-long stretch of the Mississippi river lined with oil refineries and petrochemical plants, between New Orleans and Baton Rouge.
If you live here, you are going to die.
If at any point you lived here, you are going to die, but it’s going to take…
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so, how long do you plan on just sitting there/
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what about your life when you were alive remember we met at the airport sky lounge/ then, everything got so fucking grim, we ended up taking the bus back to hollywood where the swallowtails were from, divebombing the only tree in hollywood/ we could start over and over and over,…
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i only joined the team to see you naked/
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and there you were/ at dusk, the way the light came in/ a disparaging sequal of men do not look at other men, and all of us pretending not to, burning our way through eyes of pacts, beds, wonder, and all the things that turn politely away/
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whore hotels
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unhinged, i am sucking his cock, he is sitting on the toilet/ the disenchanted bed we slept &fucked in smells soft like the sleep of stones/ it is the bike that sings &pings in the parking place outside the motel door/ death cums in my mouth, &we know we will…
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2 Pictures, 2 Men
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I watched the debate from a cheap motel bed.
Politics is like that, too. A cheap whore motel bed where you’ve just been fucked. The slugfest got real when at the final moment, and the debate was over, everyone went back to their corners. Trump’s makeup is so bizarre, it…
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GOING ROGUE
So dope. Last night we had to stop the bike, wrap ourselves in space blankets, smoke weed, and sleep on the ground. And then, it rained
Of course it rained, of course, it rained, of course it rained. And it rained and it rained.
We were too high to get…
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We Collapse
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Riding a bike all day such as a Triumph is far more rigorous than people who are inherently afraid of motorcycles anyway can possibly know.
It’s work. Bikes demand the best of you. The physical you. The spiritual you. The exhausted you. Anyone who has taken a long road trip…
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Tim Barrus: New York Times
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In the entire time I knew him, Richard Avedon never tired of shooting beautiful things.
Even if he had to make them. He imbued Audrey Hepburn with an insurmountable, curious grace. She was not accessible. Except through how, and why, and where through Avedon’s single, unwavering eye. Its focus has…
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The Supreme Court is Illigetimate
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I feel under no obligation to be compelled to follow Illegitimate so-called laws that are in any way associated with the supposititious supreme kanagroo court.
America is not legitimate.
The only question is, who has the bigger guns. The institutions or you.
I know this: It isn’t you.
We drape…