Tim Barrus Blog
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The Motel
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I always run out of needle boxes.
The murders at The Motel are not your average slash and cut affairs in showers. It’s far more complex than that. It’s just not a place you would bring up the subject of HIV in any conceivable conversation.
Tired tourists who find their…
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Tim Barrus in the New York Times
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I work with boys at-risk who have HIV. People do not understand at-risk means a spectrum. Suicide is at the top of the spectrum. Boys and guns. The gun is an insurance policy if things get any worse than they already are. Often, they’ll hide the gun in their stuff…
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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,…