Tim Barrus Blog
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
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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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Tim Barrus: Torn Jeans
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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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Tim Barrus: Mary Who
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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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Tim Barrus, New York Times
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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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Tim Barrus, New York Times
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You don’t get to have just one.
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
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We dance a fancy dance all around the issue of deep poverty. Because deep poverty is doing its bloody dance all around us. These constants – deep poverty, abortion – beg an irony that has babies no one wants. No one supports kids in crisis anymore because there is no…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
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I can only speak for myself. The idea that we are required to spend our lives in adulation for a court well-versed in economic ideaology. Pack the court. Make it bigger. There is no law that says the court must be composed by lawyers. And while you’re at it, give…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
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Articles on fine dining are a bur up my ass. How many poor people are going to read this piece. Five. And they are all from midtown.
Eat the rich.
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
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I love this stuff where the act of writing remains a theology. Black Mountain is just a few miles from where I live in these same mountains. This year, the green rolling hills are breathtaking. These guys at Black Rock were the parents and grandparents of the counter culture itself.…
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Tim Barrus: Midnight Thrift
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Karma’s a trick, now. You probably should not have left me standing alone.