Tim Barrus Blog
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The Only Time
the only time in my fatigued, hollow-eyed life/ that i have ever felt good about or exhilerated/ to be living my life – another world for a threadbare existence – such as a gaunt survival deteriorates like radiation leaves a telltale trail of half-lives wrung out, and drained was when… -
Tim Barrus: New York Times
I am never shocked. But I am shocked to see the photographs. This is called denial. This is called Nothing Happened. This is called death. Cultural denial begins with leadership. He’s steering himself. Only himself. He’s floundering. We did this to us. We must take responsibility for it. We bought…
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For Kirk
i let you make your own films with your blondness spilling out like cum/ my cups completely full/ you and your life from underneath by moonlight sweeps and turns in whispers/ the fragile bed sullen in the tangle of your clothes upon the floor, sleep is an isolated body like… -
crowded by the sky
dragging your mind across the sawdust floor/ all your southbound ships are tombs of cries crowded by the sky/ your crippled wings are rusted, and your amputated bones have been thrown into the potter’s field of savable parts/ https://timbarrus.tumblr.com -
Tim Barrus: New York Times
“False and misleading statements.” That cotton candy phrase again. The entire Trump narrative is a LIE. The lies just keep coming. But we weaken their power, especially with the use of the term: misleading. As if this slip of the tongue takes us by accident down the Trump rabbit hole.…
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And We Have Met Ourselves
Tim Barrus: The New York Times I took this photograph with a GoPro from a New York City fire escape where I was living. In a place they call the rabbit hole. I have explored and lived in holes most of my life. And I am here to tell you…
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We Call Him Cookie
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the photography is a sketch
the sketches they make of the boats out on the lake do not reflect the lake/ the lake as they know it is something they can jump in/ naked, of course/ even in the rain/ and they will go on falling and failing and flipping everyone they know the bird/…
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the legends say
there is always a narrative/ usually one divorced from reality/ stones and bones/ many narratives were created from revenge/ if they say you are a criminal, you are a criminal/ if they say you get fucked in the ass, you get fucked in the ass/ if they make the point…
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The Nightmare of Cops Who Rape
Tim Barrus: New York Times The crisp uniform of the police officer conveys power and authority. When a police officer puts on his or her uniform the officer is perceived in a very different way by the public. He or she is viewed as embodying each person’s stereotypes about all…