Tim Barrus Blog
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Tim Barrus: Jonah’s Mountain
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I am amused and sustained by the idea that the end of homo sapiens’ domination of the planet will be sooner than anyone suspected.
The end is irreversible now. It is too late. Many scientists know.
They give voice to this reality in private. What good would blowing whistles do.…
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Tim Barrus: Boneyard
Video: Living in Appalachia is a struggle between romance and reality. The magical and the mystical. The musical and the misbehaved. The past is seen through filters of family, bullshit, a fraudulent ancestry, and a broken slavery of brittle graves. The past is always as toxic as a civil war.…
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Tim Barrus: New York Times: Boys Raped
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Some kids have never had real parents. They have always parented themselves.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/16/style/snowplow-parenting-scandal.html?comments#permid=31096013
College admission?
I work with young adolescent boys with HIV.
In rural Appalachia. Reading about parenting is like reading about Mars.
Every boy has been raped. You think not. Overly dramatic. Yet rape is a way of…
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Dancing Through the Pain
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I Have Sticks by Smurf
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i
can
beet
off
a
hole
army
with
a
stick
A Poem By Smurf
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Jake: I Was Working Traffic
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I was working traffic
that means
I was working cars
of men
Rolling down
their windows
How much
was it
You can suck me
off
For twenty bucks
or fuck me
For a hundred
no condom is extra
Just getting in their cars
was so exhausting
I could barely move…
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I Call Them the Family Men
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When I say “Family Man,” I mean men who slink around like criminals, sucking boy cock, getting fucked in the ass by kids they pay, or playing games of motel sadomasochism that would shrink your balls to Skittles.
These men have high rates of sexually transmitted disease. This can mean,…
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Tim Barrus: The New York Times: Appalachia
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http://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/15/opinion/appalachia-trump-coal.html?comments#permid=31085665
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…
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Tim Barrus: The New York Times: Suicide
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http://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/14/opinion/suicide-prevention.html?comments#permid=31069462
After they are dead, I will go into their rooms to smell them. As if to remind myself that each one is a separate individual. I put his pillow in my face and breathe him in deeply. I crawl naked into his bed. I finally sleep. The days after…
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Video: We Are The Travelers & We Have Returned
We are the travelers whose empty lips have foreshadowed the wolves growling at the door. Some say the strength of twenty men.