Tim Barrus Blog
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Blue Ridge Baby
Revenge has a few things to hang doubt upon. – Tim Barrus
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That These Vaults, too, Should Crack
The weight of this sad time, and sing, and tell old tales we can do this. We can do more than just endure.
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Appalachia Kicks
I live in Appalachia. Supposedly, this, too, is North Carolina. I live here because it’s cheap. Economics is the great leveler. I eat what I can grow. Why is that supposed to be a humiliation. This is the land of No One Makes Much Around Here Anyway. We are not…
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Road Trip
I wake up in the morning with Romeo Void in my mouth. I will slit my wrists without coffee. Coffee. I go to work constructing Romeo. Knowing full well, the critics finally get the final say. Or do they. Get anything. Most of them will flog me (don’t even go…
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porch
He sang songs in this rocker. And he forgot his hat.
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Pierre at Cap Breton
Pierre at Cap Breton
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Do you like it? Boy, I Want, Want, Want, Whatchu Want, Want, Want, Give It 2 Me, Baby, Like Boom, Boom, Boom
Do you like it?Boy, I want, want, want whatchu want, want, wantGive it to me, baby, like boom, boom, boomWhat I want, want, want is what you want, want, wantNah, nah-ah
Published as non-fiction, each memoir recounted purported aspects of the author’s life. The memoirs referred to his Navajo heritage,…
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Sitting in the Car Alone
I see shadows. And they move. Time itself is a choreography. I still cannot believe he’s gone. I only get kicked like this if there’s rain. I have no idea why. I had to break the door down. He was so glad to see me. I realized, he was probably…
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Oscar Has No Clothes
I so do not care about clothes or fashion. I only wear clothes when I take the dog out. I wear farmer jeans and Tshirts. I do not care about film. I am a dinosaur from Appalachia. In 1934, I stopped watching anything produced by Hollywood. The last TV show…