Tim Barrus Blog

1. Tim Barrus, New York Times

   The poor today will be the poor tomorrow and slavery – hope is ephemeral and is called a job given out with cold regard to the Homo sapiens on the exhausted planet. Let’s dig some coal. And dig and dig and dig our way to splendid riches. I mean, what…

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2. Tim Barrus: It Went Something Just Like This

   Mad hatters just like this.

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3. Tim Barrus: What’s That Sound

   The one who was staring at you wears a chain of dog’s teeth.  

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4. Tim Barrus: That Fire He Sings About Is Real

   The sad omen that opens in the blood. Rendering you clear as syrup.

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5. Tim Barrus: It Washes Over You

   There are no horizons, there is only you, we ride them like they are seditious.   

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6. Tim Barrus: A Basket of Apples

   I can feel my bones grind in this wet basement air.

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7. Tim Barrus: In This Cold and Bitter Air

   The charade of stones by themselves might create a fence of rocks but butchery will arrive tonight.

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8. Tim Barrus: Most of Life Feels Haunted

   I was there when the everyone had left you. And your stunned What Did I Do turned to What Exactly did you think would happen. When the whispering stops. And your eye that has been watching this dream of all your second selves who claim they will now walk into…

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9. Tim Barrus: You Were Lost Again

   Je ne peux pas continuer à te chercher quand tu es perdu alors arrête ça, petit garçon, arrête ça.

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10. Tim Barrus: Karma’s A Trip

    You probably shouldn’t have left me standing alone.

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