Tim Barrus Blog
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house of gnomes
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the gnome house in the distance sits on circumstance and bones/ the gnomes live there, in their passages through the earthen tunnels of the badgers and the bears/ whose fierce eyes and crawling dark against a sky that has disappeared/ like the hidden rooms smell of the kind of spitting…
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When Tricks Go Bad
this is the place where the earth does not spin/ it freezes/ everything goes slow motion/ you know you’re going to have to run/ usually it’s about something the trick insists he wants to do/ it’s his money/ he calls the shots/ the lost days are done/ the bitterness is…
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Tim Barrus: New York Times: Get Real
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Michelle Goldberg at the New York Times tells us to hit the streets.
Nine million Americans live in the streets. Exactly how is it that they’re supposed to hit them.
The New York Times people are smart and they have good intentions.
But they live in a well-funded bubble, and…
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A Safe Place to Learn Almost Seems Like MoreThan We Know How To Do
rock it like a candle and the blowing out
from screams covered as most screams
are by dust
Rock it like a candle and the blowing out
the earth in seconds and you can watch
them all naked as a cat knows sleep
rock it like a candle and the…
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Tim Barrus and the New York Times
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David Leonhardt is an opinion/editorial columnist at the New York Times. I agree with him on many things, and admire his writing.
Often, his reasoning is lame.
If only — we just worked together.
If only…
I am sick and tired of hearing all the if only we coulds one…
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the jumping in
this time the jumping in has to do with sex/ you do mix it up with relationships and i am okay with that/ but i am not the point/ it’s not about me/ it’s about you/ it’s about all the jumping in/ i am here to tell you that i…
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Rape As Punishment In Juvenile Detention Has to Stop
The Department of Justice estimates that one in every three boys referred to juvenile justice detention is raped. I used to wonder what it might take for people to care enough to put a stop to it. I was naive to put it mildly. Institutions employ rape as overt victimization.…
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Your Bride’s White Dress
white people do not think about hunger
because they are rarely hungry and
there you on the corner and the twisting
it’s always worse in the rain and then
you ache with sucking old white cock
my summary of what is wrong with
this picture the lips and teeth of…
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New York Times: On Queer Childhood
I mentor boys at-risk for HIV. Many of them do sex work. They don’t carry the baggage of typical adolescents. Their baggage is a lot more breath-taking. People see delinquency, the juvenile justice system, and detention. None of which work. That people do not understand homelessness, hunger, and hate, is…
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To Burn the Sky
dusk was difficult to burn the sky
we thieves together, and the lovers
and the friends they all too often
cum slowly such moments like distant
moons and stuff and lawns can fade in suicide’s revenge so complicit with the
living and their first violent year of
holding you naked…