Tim Barrus Blog
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
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About Poetry.
Ten reasons why religious poetry is religious poetry. By a poet. Who lives on a farm in Appalachia. 1.) I do not know what it is like to be a woman. I am not a woman. I do not want to be a woman. 2.) It is hard…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
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I contracted a fatal disease. Dementia sets in. I do get lost, and find it rather interesting as it is usually somewhere I have never been. I have a 16-year-old (going on 27) “helper” who does everything. His spelling is bad but he proofs my stuff which is always a…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
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If you model (we used to call it teach) racism, what your community is going to have is racism.
A message of hope in a time when hope is microscopic. I regard it with caution. Suspicion. I struggle to lose the suspicion. This is Appalachia. “Down here” racism lurks in…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
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Parenting on a good day can be deranged. Parenting on a bad day is also deranged. Parenting in an emergency and the failure of infrastructure is called rock and role. $1.39 per meal per kid on Snap. A complete failure. The number of hungry American children has doubled. The failure…
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Bolivia, We Were In Bed Again
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Excerpt: Going Rogue
Bolivia
We were in bed again.
I was on my phone writing comments for the New York Times.
Juanita wanted to know why I was typing on the phone and what was wrong with me.
“You are always doing that. I don’t even know what the New…
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TIM BARRUS, NEW YORK TIMES
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Homo sapien has started a runaway process that signals extinction. Who is surprised that plastic is toxic. I am humiliated when I tell people that Appalachian opiate addiction is a side effect of unmitigated corporate greed versus the extent to which morality can be used as a yardstick of a…
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upstairs in our bed
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what sort of old stone house is this with its memories of the old people playing cards downstairs while we pretended sleep the kind of sleep lost somewhere between the morning and the mystical, the musical, and the misbehaved
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SOME KIDS GO ROGUE BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
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Ezra Klein is right. He just doesn’t know how right he is.
Now that he has a kid…
Ezra is usually focused on public policy. I cannot focus on public policy because it is a humanitarian nightmare. It serves the rich.
Who else.
Ezra and his Ezra clones find it…
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When the Bars Close
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the whole structure
whose monotonous
long sleeps thief
your bike was on
the front porch