Tim Barrus Blog
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going rogue
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HIV is a nightmare. It is not a life. The disingenuous rhetoric that the suffering is now a controllable management machine, pop the pills, prest-O change-O, you are not cured. Cope. Here it comes: First, you lose family. Then, people you thought were your friends have disappeared. Now, you know.…
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Going Rogue
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The rumors of a great impending darkness were overplayed. The numbers of Homo Sapiens who now lived on the planet plunged just like everything that failed all of it, all of it, every death from every plague. What could possibly come back for you to sleep inside yourself.
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Deranged In The Wire Trap
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After all of this, I came inside the slog of a tent to sleep. Hug My toes.
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presque endormi
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Going Rogue: A Novel
Tim Barrus
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Kansas
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L’Afrique du Nord cet été-là était à Paris. Paris à nouveau.
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The Failure of Seduction
i no longer know what it is they are trying to tell me/ the kid with the moving hands tells me far more about his poverty than his sedution/ i have sent pigeons and far-flung jazz sounds WTKO/ and to hotels where he has stayed/ not unlike his seductions seeping…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
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Choose life? Leave Roe alone. What kind of life would that be. That life someone else is forced to have to live because the loudest among us say so. We never talk about the person whose poverty will define them, and they are happily here because the loudest among us…
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HookerBooker
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TIM BARRUS, NEW YORK TIMES
I DID NOT SPEAK OF DESIRE
Village life, and trade it in for life on a dirt bike. Everything I own fits into one canvas camera bag. If it won’t fit in the bag, I don’t need it. The dirt bike takes me places I…
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Necromancer
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In Going Rogue, I’m writing some about how as a writer, comments are the only thing I am allowed to touch. It’s the comments that facilitate such publications as the New York Times to become more than a publication, but now we dabble in social media platform. Because those of…