Tim Barrus Blog
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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…
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the tyranny of convention
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the marketplace is
the tyranny of
convention
many many many
of the artists
i know and i
know them in
their guts
a few
in their bowels
are creating
the same fucking
images they
created years
ago
or the same
fucking poetry
they created
years ago
because feeding
the voraciousness…
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Rape Pit
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Rape Pit
i did not say
rape kit
i said
r-a-p-e
p-i-t
a deep
dive into
hatred
usually buried
U cheap fuck
languages and
meter’s drumbeat
U have
gotten away
a deep dive
w/ it before
w/ discernible
impunity
a pattern of
its own
deep dive
but we will
find…
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Poetry: Bondage of the Foster Parent
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U R different yet in many ways
u 2R the same having been there
U know what U know in decrepitude
that this rope both binds U&him
&ties U up together his echo
cold eyes of death in the
land of savages is always
rendered moonlight&
the wind he only…
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Identity: Are We What We Do
Is the whore hitchhiking to go somewhere or is there an assumption a whore is a whore is a whore. Is there anyone who doesn’t think this boy with his thumb out is not a whore.
Or does my merely suggesting it color what you think you see.
There but…
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Appalachian Savages and the Stigma
Stigma has its thick-skinned tongue licking out their fastidious shit holes it is a crisis it is a nonchalant devoutness it is inflamed, of consequence, provoked, quivering. Just stick me, God.
I am usually far more interested in their reactions to stigma than I am in stigma itself. Run, as…