Tim Barrus Blog
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On Identity
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This has explosive reamifications to a culture where identity itself is set in stone, cannot be moved, and defines you until the day you die, and even then, you are nothing more than quantum matter coming into focus and then out again. The human being itself playing the part of…
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what subservience demands
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asylum/ we seek asylum/ this strange life keeps peeling from our sin/ our fall from grace, our searching for asylum as an act of war/ the sea and suffering/ our only poetry speaks of resistance to whatever subservience demands/
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your mouth of rain
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we were the dead/ and we would be them, too/ our tongues had been silenced by our shame/ i would trace your face of pain with my finger sweeping down the rest of you like wet leaves i slide it in you knew you knew you knew i would with…
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where nothing moves to chase the sea
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the only noise from him is an almost breathing/ an almost punishing sunlight swarming/ where nothing moves to chase the sea/
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a quiet emptiness
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the rut of emptiness up to the broken hills/ ravages without variety amid the timid spilling of the stars at night/ clicking with the crickets all the sad way to a parking lot/
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the woods
they wanted 2 bulldoze it/ the walled-in white community of fat retiress wanted a full assult on the woods because branches and leaves blew up on their golf course yards/ then, the economy tanked/ the walled-in white community of fat retirees is broke/ the woods stands/
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I Want U2 Stay
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Tim Barrus: New York Times: Hungry Children
No one talks about hunger.
Hunger has put another layer of burden via a system that is a cruel antique tool of punishment for being poor.
The GOP US Senate refuses to increase food via SNAP because they agree with Mitch McConnell: “These people are lazy.” Mitch McConnell should go…
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Food Stamps: $31.00 per Week for Food
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He is losing weight. There is hunger in America. Children always pay the price.
Senate Republicans are opposing any increase in food stamps for kids.
At twelve, he’s not flourishing. He’s floundering.
Medically, he’s now in the highest risk group you can fall into the cracks. It’s a hard fall.…
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in a snow globe/
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you cannot compare my life or the life i have lived and cherry pick it apart, and then stand back, and pretend you have accomplished anything/ i know exactly how bizarre it sounds to people i call the normals/ i am not sure anyone is truly normal, but i do…