Tim Barrus Blog
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Blackout
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The Walls of What Remains
Among the walls of what remains, there’s always writing.
If I am totally alone, and out on the lake on a winter’s night, I will walk across the ice, and looking up, there it is, the past. I can see the past. The Coma clusters have come undone. I make…
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Sometimes They Go Back To Where They Lived
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When many at-risk boys get kicked out of their home, usually because they come out to their families, fathers seem particularly threatened, the boy will surrender to the dramatic emotion of the moment, frequently leaving behind things they call, My Stuff. Whether they had a lot of stuff in their…
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The Death of GoPro
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The adventure, wide-angle camera company, GroPro, has been around for almost twenty years. It is beginning to look more like a camera company corpse, unable or unwilling to adapt to a new economy, than what it was in the beginning. A move and shaker. A maker of camera lenses that…
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Tim Barrus In the New York Times
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TRUMP’S NANNY
No one goes to the issue of mental health. Fear is relevant. If any of the rest of us exhibited overt threats and claims and lies and the puffing up of the chest to assert power over class, public policy, Constitution, Congress, Supreme Court, Federal Reserve, porn stars,…
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Tim Barrus in the New York Times
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HIV clinics, here in Appalachia, often have no doctors on the premises. Doctors are expensive and are seen as a luxury. On a good day.
These are not good days. It feels like the 1980s all over again. With HIV, your health is inherently precarious, and when the systems that…
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Dorm
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i would sit in the dormroom chair, it was not comfortable/ watching you masturbate/ we never talked about it/ we avoided it/ never exloring our own roles and participation in it/ that fire sale was not extinguished/ i no longer sit in the dormroom chair watching you masturbate/ sometimes, we…
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A Deviant’s Morning Eyes
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the way it unfolded was not unlike the way it always unfolds/
we are at opposite ends of a picnic table/ six feet apart/ but connecting/
boats in the immediate distance bobbing about on the water smelled of rich people somewhere else/
i am sitting with andrew as the dew…
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No Cock No Cure No Compatibility
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Tim Barrus in the New York Times
I wish I could, but I am unable to share in the idea of idealism. There is no real evidence – only the anecdotal – to indicate we as a culture will not fail. We have already failed. We failed to elect a…
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Signs
Any relationship requires work.