Tim Barrus Blog

1. Tim Barrus: You Always Did Jump for Joy

   You were either high (and all of its variations) or you were low (and all of its variations). You had flown up a tree not unlike Peter Pan. “I’m flyiiiiinnnngggg.” Peter is a naughty boy. You have no idea. How naughty is Pan, anyway. The question is not worthy of…

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2. Tim Barrus: Appalachia Town

   “Do you reckon you will take pictures of the house.” “No.”

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3. Tim Barrus, New York Times

   I am actually hard on the South. A jaundiced eye. Never use a radiator. We grow great corn around here. I’ve never seen a still. But I have heard whispers about them.

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4. Tim Barrus: Why Do Cops All Have the Same Ass

   How big is it. Her ass is so big, you could fit a three car garage in there. Big. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/16/opinion/america-west-road-trip.html?campaign_id=0&emc=edit_cr_20220717&instance_id=0&nl=comments-notifications&regi_id=56243886&segment_id=0&user_id=acf7e0fa0ccfaa274c5a8c73c0976c4a#commentsContainer&permid=119353333:119353333

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5. Tim Barrus, New York Times

   I live at the top of a mountain in the Blue Ridge. I ride a dirt bike. Street bikers think I’m nuts. But who needs a helmet anyway. I am thinking America in my hair. When I ride into a city, someone tries to steal my bike. I have caught…

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6. Tim Barrus: There Be Shadows in The Scratchings on the Rocks

   To which is fixed. Midnight on a spit. Slanderous tongues and savages.

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7. Tim Barrus, New York Times

   They have nukes. Let us pretend only half of their murderous machine works. Let us pretend only half of our weapons work. The world is destroyed anyway because Real Politik interventions like a peace table and none of them are round.Homo sapiens destroy everything in their path. What keeps them…

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8. Tim Barrus: Torn Jeans

   And the quiet and thin air torn not unlike rags are torn from sober certainty under the ribs of death, torn, from curses and demons, torn from the memory of ancient tongues and storied weariness just below what will become (you have seen this) dissolved in forfeit of who should…

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9. Tim Barrus: Mary Who

   For whatever reasons, the four-year-olds were probably in charge. I think they ran that place. They’re lawyers. All of them. Lawyers.

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10. Tim Barrus, New York Times

    I exist. You do not exist because you have no particular importance. I exist. I am a persom. You are a Homo sapien. One of many. Garden variety humanism. An ordinary communist. I ghost people every day. I get ghosted every day. Ghosts are the last men standing, they have…

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