Tim Barrus Blog
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Ships Swift As Thoughts
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AIDS Dementia Will Kill You
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We did not find him hanging in a tree. Dead. We found him hanging in a tree. Alive.
Hey, little bird, fly away home, your house is on fire, and you children will burn.
Timing is everything.
Last night was Christmas eve. We could not find Joel.
We never call…
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Tim Barrus: New York Times
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My health insurance company refuses to pay for medications that help relieve pain. They are indifferent. Not paying for pain meds will kill me and I have to come to terms with it. There is nothing about medicine that is kind. The local hospital regards me as a troublemaker and…
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The White House Has a Rubber Room
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I teach boys at-risk. Many are clinically depressed, clinically emotionally disturbed, and clinically inclined to embrace an ultimate chaos that upends not just classrooms, but any school they choose to focus on.
Some are serial sexual predators.
Like Trump, watching institutions collapse is something they can do in their sleep. …
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TRAITOR
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Tim Barrus: NYT
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/20/opinion/trump-impeachment-guide-congress.html?comments#permid=29836960
He is a traitor.
Usually, there’s just an end. The old government bows out gracefully, and the new government leans in.
Not this time.
Impeachment is for us.
Not him.
He does not choose to tolerate anything, let alone a government, that is not about him.…
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We Decide
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http://aumag.org/2018/12/20/facing-mortality-head-on/
Love this piece. Thanks, Hank. I respect your courage to write what is the forbidden city. The taboo around asking the question – IS IT WORTH IT – must still be asked even if (maybe especially if) jumping off jump off rock comes with how many vehicles of stigma…
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My Lover, My Drug Dealer
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The American health insurance companies are denying claims for any pain meds if you have HIV. Apparently HIV is not only harmless, it’s painless, too. Cigna is not who or what they say they are.
I am writing this on my phone, waiting for Gino to show up. He’s always…
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carnivorous
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The following gig was published at the New York Times and stayed up on their site for about three hours.
Tim Barrus NYT (re: Government Secrets & the Hackers Who Hack Them)
Secrets, and secrets, and secrets. I am sure that this fetish for secrets, and their dissemination is a…
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Toilet PoetryBoy & His Writing Instrument
We can always hear him talking to his phone. If they had not created what we call poetry, Jarred would have invented it
First, he talks into the phone. Then, he writes the poem.
He usually rewrites that. All on the phone.
The toilet itself absorbs him.
He does the…
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Sam the Man
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Hitches rides in highway rest areas. Sometimes they’ll take you where you’re going. Sometimes they’ll take you to where they are going. Sometimes, you get thrown into a ditch.