Tim Barrus Blog
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Tim Barrus: The New York Times: Growing Old in America
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Poverty is a cycle. It comes. It goes. It eats its young. It decimates its old. It is not unlike the people who inhabit it.
Tara Parker-Pope’s statement in the New York Times: Getting older is inevitable (and certainly better than the alternative) stuns me.
We are afraid of death.…
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Church Shoes, Ah – by Tay
At the ripe old age of sixteen, Tay is what the government and the AIDS orgs (both kinda the same thing) call “The Hard To Reach.”
We blame them. The Hard To Reach. Shame on them, right.
Supposedly, it’s all their fault.
I guess someone has to be the fall…
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shifting differences of breath
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the witching
hour is
when U
preserved in amber
sleep breathing
in your dreams
and threads
through the
sounds of shame
swallowing
today your
children
have stones
for eyes and
suffering cold
their fallen
snow melts
wet upon
a witch’s
tongue
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The Hard To Reach
We have many stories told about people living with HIV. These run the gamut from novels to screenplays.
There is nothing out there that directly focuses on the HARD TO REACH.
Who are the hard to reach.
This is a stupid question
You KNOW who they are. Stop pulling my…
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TIM BARRUS: NEW YORK TIMES
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ON BEING ASKED ABOUT HOPE
I have no hope. None.
It is a crime. To not have hope. You become immediately marginalized.
I am told, there is always hope. There is no hope. Not in my world.
My world is the world of HIV/AIDS. A world of vast discrimination, inequality,…
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Another Night of Whores
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the fuckbucket slinks around
the block not unlike the tongues
of midnight in ten thousand
of them creep along the sidewalks,
too
if only i could steal myself free
of some trick’s eating of
my ass i would do it like a
tyrant’s vein
so blue in temperament all
that’s…
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Tim Barrus: New York Times
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THEY NEVER SLEEP
I work with adolescent boys who live with HIV. AIDS is not over. Either are the cascade of drugs that come at them like an oblivion they fight in fear. They never sleep. Pacing back and forth at night in the creeping feed of a desolation while…
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Joel, We R With U
Hang in there with me, Joel. We got this.
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Tim Barrus: The New York Times
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Tim Barrus: The New York Times
The state is correct in its regulation in cosmetology. It’s an intimate kind of thing, touching. It’s about public health.
Cosmetologists are trained to recognize disease. And then, make appropriate referrals. A barber who once cut my hair, cut my scalp. It took a…
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Tim Barrus: New York Times PICK
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CBD works for me.
Undoubtably conservatives will ruin everything just like they always do.
Get it while you can.
It’s not about pleasure.
It’s about pain.
Conservatives insist we be in pain.
I have Avascular Necrosis. Without CBD, I cannot move. Yesterday, I took a walk around the house. I…