Tim Barrus Blog

  1. Tim Barrus: New York Times: All Politics is Local

    Tim Barrus: New York Times I sit in in silence at HIV clinics with people who cling to their oxygen tanks. AIDS is far from over. Americans pay $2K for Truvada which costs $8 in Australia. The depression and hopelessness you write about is real. I thank you for your

  2. Port of Call

    Public Health has failed us. People tell me all the time: TIM, IT’S NOT LIKE THAT ANYMORE. Supposedly, we are living in a medical Renaissance. What a wonderful time to be alive. Until the day it’s not. Public Health refuses to give him the drugs he needs to stay alive.…

  3. HMS Lollipop

    Trump the Peacemaker One hand scratches the head. Another hand scratches elsewhere. Good guys. Bad guys. Tweedledee and tweedledum.  In which shell does the nut reside. This is not a foreign policy. This thing we have. This is a trailer park on Friday night. Trump is so out to lunch,

  4. Tim Barrus: NY Times: Let’s Have Another Stupid War

    Trump has been looking for a war. He could go to war with the State of California. Americans would stand with him shoulder to shoulder because Americans are as fatuous as he is. Trump could invade Vermont, and Americans would applaud. But we have a congress. Oh, really. They could

  5. Trump Plans New Military Draft

    The Trump Administration is making plans with the Pentagon that would reinstate the draft in the Unites States. When asked what this meant, there was no comment. The usual response is that contingency plans are always being made as a part of readiness. But this time, the Department of Defense…

  6. The Self-Sexualized Male Animal

    Here’s what I know. I know this is not you. This is not even any of your second selves. I go along with the charade a lot. Especially when it’s all around me 24/7, and I am only one person. But I am not Audrey Hepburn, and I sure as…

  7. the tyranny of convention

    the marketplace is the tyranny of convention many many many of the artists i know and i know them in their guts a few in their bowels are creating the same fucking images they created years ago or the same fucking poetry they created years ago because feeding the voraciousness…

  8. Rape Pit

    Rape Pit i did not say rape kit i said r-a-p-e p-i-t a deep dive into hatred usually buried U cheap fuck languages and meter’s drumbeat U have gotten away a deep dive w/ it before w/ discernible impunity a pattern of its own deep dive but we will find

  9. Poetry: Bondage of the Foster Parent

    U R different yet in many ways u 2R the same having been there U know what U know in decrepitude that this rope both binds U&him &ties U up together his echo cold eyes of death in the land of savages is always rendered moonlight& the wind he only…

  10. Identity: Are We What We Do

    Is the whore hitchhiking to go somewhere or is there an assumption a whore is a whore is a whore. Is there anyone who doesn’t think this boy with his thumb out is not a whore. Or does my merely suggesting it color what you think you see. There but