Tim Barrus Blog
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Tim Barrus in the New York Times
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AIDS in Appalachia
I live in the Blue Ridge in Appalachia where health care is a nightmare.
Public Health has waiting lists which means you cannot get an appointment for seven to eight months.
Public Health throws you around like you are just a carcass of meat. They sexually exploit…
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Tim Barrus in the New York Times
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What is the point of writing when the entire world hates you. I was lost in hate. It was a python. It wrapped itself around me and squeezed until all the bones were pulverized. I would never write another book again.
The publishing mountains were now too strewn with dangerous…
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Fuck World AIDS Day
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World AIDS Day Is Out of Touch
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Fuck World AIDS Day
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Tim Barrus in the New York Times: Civil War 2
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Trump has also threatened civil war. I assume this would not be a war between the states. More like a a race war, an age war, an economic war, and cages would not be just for children.
If you think public executions could never happen here, please update your perception…
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The Attic Gods Came By Today
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the attic gods came by today
from behind time where they
like to be concealed/ bearing
the imprint of the din, the attic
gods of history’s bin/ taking
out what had been thrown away,
and terrorizing us to explain it/
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And He Would Fly Away
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his heart is rubbish/ he has always lived in his own world/ he knows the outside world is there/ he has simply chosen not to participate/ but such decisions have consequences/ you try changing his wet and shitty diaper/ i double dog dare you/ any romanticism you once held for…
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Tim Barrus in the New York Times: American Family
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What both liberalism and conservatism prop up is mythology. In reality, the American family is a vile, repulsive, and depraved institution whose significance is about power, and has nothing to do with bonding.
I do not mean to be uncivil. This is simply what I think, what I have seen,…
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Julian
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childhood is a dog and pony show
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i no longer listen to them much
beyond what they do inside their skins
i do not seek answers there are none
that work the whole dog and pony
show we call childhood are answers
that are not answers they are pre-
programmed stereotypes in pink
times ten and in…