Tim Barrus Blog
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When They Take The Food Right Out Of Your Mouth…
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Contrary to what you might be hearing from the white, privileged, upper-middle-class activists, AIDS is not over. No quite yet.
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toward whose delirious repose
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you in your distance
toward whose delirious
repose suggesting
structures of scars
i have seem them all
i have touched them all
i have followed them
with my lizard’s tongue
i want to thank you
for teaching me a
huge, huge fucking
lesson/ never
get arrested/
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But For This
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Memory’s Machine
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road trip with the dust and weed smoke in the car so thick, our eyes were the gas stations in the full gasoline noon/ the small town street lamps had once been crows, and all the motels had been rolling hills whose With Nothing To Return To was solid as…
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Memory’s Machine
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après la fête
le reste
rages de poussière
resté derrière
se masturber
à l’intérieur du cerveau
enregistrer plus tôt
tragédies désorientées
par flou
si parallèle
événements
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Memory’s Machine
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lost afternoons
justly placed
each mirror
could be
manifest beyond
sex work is still
work and sweat
and humiliation
just like any
other form of
work an arrangement
of perspective
sheets, walls, scrubbing
floors in unison
our lips in full
abundance we
brought along
our gods from
the pawn shops
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Memory’s Machine
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et sa ceinture
quand il fouette
tu es nu
vous autorisez seulement
lui baiser
toi dans le cul
quand il y a
pas de nourriture
et ton ventre
grogne comme un
tigre bleu a
sauté à travers
la fenêtre
à ton lit
vous dites à votre agresseur
te baiser
dans…
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Memory’s Machine
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the two of them could be silent as a blackboard/ i no longer know what it means to simply be/ their history is one of burning bones and whipped and a cigarette of fiery scars you cannot see/ who could do that to a child stop asking me that question…
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Tim Barrus in the New York Times: Boys Who Do Sex Work
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I teach boys called the Hard To Reach. More stigma. Most have done lots of sex work. Many have HIV.
Some have starred in porn where the age of consent is fluid, often fictional, and enhanced youth in post-production. My work is exhausting and most traditional teachers vividly do not…
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Except Sometimes
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except sometimes
your whispers
tell us what you
think it is we
want to know
and you are
as always right
about a lot
of things/ like
how pain and
loneliness are
often the same
thing and your
books of wandering
arms outstretched
have brought
you here/
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