Tim Barrus Blog
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I Opened My Eyes
When Is Cultural Approbation Survival I still get death threats. Death threats are stupid, and stupid people make them. Bring it on, bitch.I opened my eyes. A small group of people in scrubs were looking down at me and they were uniformly grim. Obviously, this was a hospital. Tubes. Beeps.…
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A WHORE AT THE DIXIE DINER
He eats like he hasn’t had any food in days. He devours the carbs. “And then the last trick…” He is telling me all about his latest Adventures in Sex Work. I simply listen. It is what I do. I’m pretty good at building the walls I construct to keep…
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of mice and men
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Shake Yer Kitty
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Guyz and Dollz
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Jesus Had Sickle Cell
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I Am An Egyptologist
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When Everyone Else Has Washed Their Hands Of Him
He doesn’t really look at me in the eye. He seems quite bored. What does it mean. It means he’s scared to death. Attitude is only attitude. “Gotta light.” I always gotta light. It seems infinitesimally small. But it’s something. But it’s something. But you gotta give the kid credit…
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Americans Are the Stupid Monsters of the Planet
Famine. It’s not my fault. Hmmm. How stupid are they. You have to literally drift around the world a few times before it hits you like a kick to the testicles. Stupidity and morality are synonymous, evolutionary processes. You can’t have one without the other. Stupidity is the self-inflicted blinders…
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Moving Through the Fog Like Thieves
I drive through the fog on my big black bike. It’s a lot like sex at all the straining angles. Cutting through the Blue Ridge fog, we become less and less. Glowing in the dark around a bend. Leaning into the shadows of the moon. We slept like cards in…