Tim Barrus Blog
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Smash Street
There are eternal things like diaspora. Human beings are a busy species.
this is stuff we see like through a filter of dust and eyes
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SMASH STREET
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Real Stories Gallery
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On Their Own 4 A While Anyway
At some point, we have to believe we will be together again. -
they turned the water off
that time they turned the water off/ by the third day we made it 2 the car wash stripped down naked envenomed members of the community whose moral malignancy/ was bitter as the sting from the soapy hose it was resentment that in tenderness objected to a bunch of naked… -
hope is not real but behavior is
i get screamed at whenever i articulate in any way that hope is a neurological response that moves us forward even if it is rarely based in the mechanisms of reality get real, i tell them which is when they often opt for internet attacks that are, themselves, not based…
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the waffle house poems
i knew he’d be in there he was he was wanted by the cops for shoplifting at fifteen, he had avoided all the traps the hoodie obfuscated his face from the cameras his tongue was not much given to a torrent of words maybe you might get one word grunts…
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Withdrawal
we both knew withdrawal would be a real bitch the shivering blankets and blankets soaking up the sweat the hallucinations are coming
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Going Broke
We met Cherry Ester in a school shelter during the flood that arrived directly after Hurricane Michael knocked into us like a punching bag. Appalachia gets punched again and again. Hurricane Florence had just engulfed us like a shipwreck a week ago. We had yet to recover and the hurricanes…
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What Really Happened
1. I had just come off of two years on the Navajo Nation. I was deeply affected by the issue of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. It had been in my face those entire two years. 2. One night, I went to bed. 3. I woke up several months later, and was…