Tim Barrus Blog
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i am pulling away from him with the camera
i am pulling away from him with the camera i remember pulling away from him with the camera/ i am actually pulling the camera back from the emptiness of his life/ he is a survivor, so fucking what/ we have made surviving into a heroic thing when, in fact, it’s… -
Our Travel Plans Got Dark
your dreams lurked about the woods risking barbed wire fences that tore our shirts and once my right tit/ i still have that scar/ i do not know why i thought of it as your tree but i did/ mainly because you put a claim on it in much the… -
Fish Gut
there is no forgiveness in beds of rusted stone/ your flesh and bone and cock and hole incontinent with the despair of desire/ you lived in a coven of us but our eyes had been sewn tight with fish gut/ https://timbarrus.tumblr.com
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Bain
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Brandon
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Tim Barrus: New York Times
An Open Letter For the Bubbas https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/07/arts/harpers-letter.html#commentsContainer&permid=108012836:108012836 Rich writers telling Trump Suporters that the rest of us idiots need the voices of the stupid. We do not. We already know what they think. These are rich writers. With money. Are they hungry. No. Are they in hospital. No. Are they… -
Tim Barrus: New York Times
We elected it. Nothing works. Our culture is irresponsible, and reprehensible. Our systems failed. Our politics failed. Our institutions failed. We failed. America writ large. Capitalism failed. We cannot wiggle out of the thing. The resposibiliuty for our own greed and racism. We created our own nightmare. We can’t even… -
Tim Barrus in the New York Times
Moms need weed. I am not supposed to say that. I am not supposed to write it either. There are no moms here. It’s me and the boys. We have not been in public in three months. I put all the furniture out on the veranda. We can sit and…
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The Wolves Are at the Door
Tim Barrus: New York Times I deal with adolescent boys who live with HIV. Many have had upfront experience with the foster care system. Food was scarce on a good day. They dumpster dive. Snap itself was built around the fact that kids could get some food in school. There…
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Take-Out Only
the families on my street have started burning wood again we all knew that someday it would all come tumbling down all around us and then it did/ like this arthritis in my hands will grind you down to bone and dust/ waiting to eat the stones waiting to eat…