Tim Barrus Blog
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I Have Sticks by Smurf
i
can
beet
off
a
hole
army
with
a
stick
A Poem By Smurf
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Jake: I Was Working Traffic
I was working traffic
that means
I was working cars
of men
Rolling down
their windows
How much
was it
You can suck me
off
For twenty bucks
or fuck me
For a hundred
no condom is extra
Just getting in their cars
was so exhausting
I could barely move…
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I Call Them the Family Men
When I say “Family Man,” I mean men who slink around like criminals, sucking boy cock, getting fucked in the ass by kids they pay, or playing games of motel sadomasochism that would shrink your balls to Skittles.
These men have high rates of sexually transmitted disease. This can mean,…
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Tim Barrus: The New York Times: Appalachia
http://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/15/opinion/appalachia-trump-coal.html?comments#permid=31085665
Appalachia. The nearest doctor who will treat us is a hundred miles away. Everyone I know is sick with something. Because we get such little and inferior medical care. The power company has released so much vile poison into the river, all the fish that we used to rely…
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Tim Barrus: The New York Times: Suicide
http://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/14/opinion/suicide-prevention.html?comments#permid=31069462
After they are dead, I will go into their rooms to smell them. As if to remind myself that each one is a separate individual. I put his pillow in my face and breathe him in deeply. I crawl naked into his bed. I finally sleep. The days after…
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Video: We Are The Travelers & We Have Returned
We are the travelers whose empty lips have foreshadowed the wolves growling at the door. Some say the strength of twenty men.
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Video: Chinatown, Chinatown
Poetry Performance: by Tim Barrus
Poetry Script: by Harrison
Camera Work: Smurf
I do not want to be a spy for hope. I do not believe in hope. I know this: Life sucks. I want to be a spy for crazy.
It’s crazy to be in extraordinary and chronic pain.…
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Video: U Gotta Have Your Own Thing
Performance: by Tim Barrus
Poetry Script: by Darren
Camera: Smurf
Death is when you have nothing about yourself including you. You gotta have your own thing.
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DOGS IN THE STREET
THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH YOUR INTERNET.
YOU CAN’T HEAR ME BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT LISTENING.
I CAN SEE YOUR FACE.
I CAN SEE YOUR FACE.
I CAN SEE YOUR FACE.
I CAN SEE YOUR FACE.
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Tim Barrus: The New York Times
I teach adolescent boys with HIV. The Hard To Reach. Many of the boys have done sex work. They all come from extraordinary poverty, impoverished and struggling school districts, the guilt and remorse prostitution engenders, and the debilitating stigma HIV itself promotes. Where in this is there any hope. Suicide…