Tim Barrus Blog
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only innuendo is true
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the first few nights
on the street
you were mainly scared
and cold bone cold
solid as a
petosky stone
https://tim-barrus.format.com/about
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The Poetry of Billy the Kid
billy the kid speaks/ he realizes he has nothing to say, just duh, billy does not do well out in the real world he was a fuckin’ inward kinda guy, actually, they broke into that house, there was a pool there, and for an hour they owned it, billy the…
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U HAVE NO FUCKING IDEA WHAT U R TALKING ABOUT GO HOME GET 2 BED RIGHT NOW CUS I’M COMING UP THERE
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RUSSIAN LOVERS ARE LIKE
DRUNK A LOT WHICH IS FINE WITH ME
REALLY
VODKA’S VODKA
BUT NOT ALL VODKAS ARE ALIKE
MY OWN PRIVATE RUSSIAN
NEXT TO DUGGIE’S DOUGHNUTS
ACROSS FROM DENNY’S
HOW IS IT THAT
YOU LIVED AT THE GOTHAM
WHEN THE JAZZ CAME IN
AND THEN IT’S ALWAYS…
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Art is Protected Speech
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Quid Pro Quo
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Tim Barrus: NYT
Trade wars are not easy to win. Trade wars are easy to lose. Trade wars are easy to lose when one side lies, and cannot be trusted. Bad faith or no faith or faith that is reactive, volatile, capricious, and armed with the pushback of more lies…
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World AIDS Day Is Hubris
Statistics abound.
This is the landscape of medical statistics because statistics do not speak back.
They’re impotent.
As impotent as we are in the face of HIV.
A simple strand of virus.
Is not impotent.
If you look at where the species came from, do you really think that HIV…
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Traditional Philanthropy: Tim Barrus, NYT
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http://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/27/opinion/philanthropy-minorities-charities.html?comments#permid=29535183
I run a safe House for boys at-risk. Many self-identify as gay. Many have HIV, and sex work is always lurking somewhere in the background. If you can see past superficial issues of morality, you confront the beast, which is an awesome stigma.
Add into this toxic mix: addiction,…
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A Million of You to Pieces
following the ancestors of modern
human beings into the distant past
not too distant
but distant enough/
raises the question
of what is meant by the word
homo erectus
the cousin of
homo tinydickitus/
human. H. sapiens is
human by definition/
always a liability/
whereas homo erecticians
are not licensed…
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Young Boys Doing Sex Work: Tim Barrus and the New York Times
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The New York Times’ recently published piece on sex work, brothels, and landlords was informative, well-written, and fundamentally relevant. I am here to tell you that there is another side to these complex issues that never gets articulated because the world of young boys doing sex work is far more…
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No 1 Knows What Facebook Is
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Tim Barrus: The New York Times
Different versions of one’s second selves remains a successful strategy. Greed is not a second self. It is a spectrum. We are not what we pretend to be on Facebook.
My actual friends plead with me not to lift the veil. My friends are…