Tim Barrus Blog
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Theatre of a Thousand Songs
you against the drag of others
I saw your barefoot prints
in the shadows of the snow
everything from you spills
your passions being
communicated are impressive
with their immediacy but
I have no fucking idea
what you are talking about
you have sworn me to secrecy
as if words…
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Tim Barrus in the New York Times: Appalachia
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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 on…
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U Got 2 Have Something 2 Get Up In The Morning 4
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CinemathequeFilms: Les Russes à Paris
CinemathequeFilms did not disintegrate like a melted marsh mellow grimace of 16mm film burned at the alter of my untimely demise. We never did get that license. We just kept making videos.
We could pick and choose who saw them. Usually, only people who had cheered them on in France.…
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Tim Barrus: New York Times: All Politics is Local
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Tim Barrus: New York Times
I sit in in silence at HIV clinics with people who cling to their oxygen tanks. AIDS is far from over. Americans pay $2K for Truvada which costs $8 in Australia. The depression and hopelessness you write about is real. I thank you for your…
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Port of Call
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Public Health has failed us.
People tell me all the time: TIM, IT’S NOT LIKE THAT ANYMORE.
Supposedly, we are living in a medical Renaissance. What a wonderful time to be alive.
Until the day it’s not.
Public Health refuses to give him the drugs he needs to stay alive.…
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HMS Lollipop
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Trump the Peacemaker
One hand scratches the head. Another hand scratches elsewhere. Good guys. Bad guys. Tweedledee and tweedledum. In which shell does the nut reside. This is not a foreign policy. This thing we have. This is a trailer park on Friday night.
Trump is so out to lunch,…
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Tim Barrus: NY Times: Let’s Have Another Stupid War
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Trump has been looking for a war. He could go to war with the State of California. Americans would stand with him shoulder to shoulder because Americans are as fatuous as he is. Trump could invade Vermont, and Americans would applaud.
But we have a congress.
Oh, really.
They could…
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Trump Plans New Military Draft
The Trump Administration is making plans with the Pentagon that would reinstate the draft in the Unites States. When asked what this meant, there was no comment.
The usual response is that contingency plans are always being made as a part of readiness. But this time, the Department of Defense…
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The Self-Sexualized Male Animal
Here’s what I know. I know this is not you. This is not even any of your second selves.
I go along with the charade a lot. Especially when it’s all around me 24/7, and I am only one person. But I am not Audrey Hepburn, and I sure as…