Tim Barrus Blog
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after the first frost, you have to leave/
there are no glass windows, only screens/ i have seen it in the winter when you have to take a broom and push the snow drifts out/ you want to leave before the first frost arrives with it fox cub bite/ access is by canoe or kayak/ only a few…
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Against the Bitter Season
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you stand alone juxtaposed against infinity as you titty suck the married men off splitting you torn apart in parking lots back seats old dirt roads the clawing ditches corners shadows dust and salt and motels drained and dry as rats for food and staring at the wall/ but you…
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Tim Barrus: New York Times
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How it is that time after time capitalism totally fails us. We become desperate to find ways to prop it up. We fix the car with binder twine. We fall upon our swords of theory. We reinforce conformity and never structure.
We tweak it here and there. We shower a…
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Tim Barrus: Tied Tight In Your Skin
we cum here with our work/
we call it the hot seat because that is where the poets among us, which means everyone, arrive to sit and read their work/ and it is work, often, it is a lot of work, we see poets in the context of a naked…
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Tim Barrus: The New York Times
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The monkey cannot beat the jones.
Sometimes, photography says it all. Sometimes, photography is straightforwardly in your face. Safron Foer’s piece, and the photograph that accompanies it, hits hard at Americans who struggle with addiction, and the Americans who do not struggle with addiction.
To meat.
No one wants to…
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Suicide and Starvation Is the Future
Like a lot of failed writers, I also wrote a book that predicted the future. I was ridiculed as an alarmist. Everything I wrote about has come true. There will be no tomorrow. No horizon. No hope. That book’s name was “Genocide.”
Laugh. Ban me. I don’t do science fiction.…
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Billy Joe’s Bridge
this is the bridge billie joe maccallister jumped from/ it is entirely legal to smoke dope under this sacred bridge/ or so people i know claim/ they could be wrong/ they are wrong a lot/ they are not lawyers/ beware of following their legal advice/ do i appear to be…
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And There Was the Turning of the Earth
the various cures that evade us — temporarily — are always seen as impermanent as his tongue inside my mouth and the tower was your eyes gone wrong/ what is evident is that we are dust as well/ the sun from another state was the way you turned in bed/…
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DRIVING THE TIME MACHINE
look, it’s a truck, the only time i am allowed in their private world – or for that matter any adult is allowed in their private world – is when i am driving the time machine/ their beds were dragged up to the roof where they sleep in a time…
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TIM BARRUS: NEW YORK TIMES
Industrial consumption is a sadness all over the wrecked planet we live on.
The wholesale slaughter of animals is ubiquitous to our predatory species, and eating animals is immoral, unethical, unnecessary, and a symbolic reminder that the systems we have built, like industrial farming, that prop our culture up with…