Tim Barrus Blog
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Tim Barrus: Lovers and Thieves
I would never use your real name in a novel I am writing where the main character is demented. Why would I do that. I might do that. But I didn’t. If you got it if you got it you go boom boom. And my runaway eye eye. If you…
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Tim Barrus: Minimize Your Risk
We lived upstairs. We did not go out much. We kept the place fully stocked. Wichita whores chill. Crystal sing just sing. Coal free. Keep your shoes on. It was a mistake to have just have left me standing alone. Go. Go. Take yourself home. I am home.
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
I am conflicted about inclusion. I have been in the thick of it. In some ways, it’s just managing chaos. After a year of inclusion, my typical 6th graders never once invited the disabled in – the disabled kids were not their friends, they were just obstacles in the classroom…
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Tim Barrus, Mr. Daniels
Irene: Jack Daniels. Danny’s. 7pm
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Tim Barrus, The Little Boxes
The whores can rent what we call one of the Little Boxes.
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
People cling to their various definitions of what they think hope is. The word itself is a pornography. Deeply embedded in Homo sapien’s needy brain. It needs you to love him. It needs you to embrace him. It needs you to reason with him if it can be done. Mainly,…
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Tim Barrus: Munching On Peyote
My friends live here, too. We’re a bit tired. Life is a hard bitch. No one around here calls it a mobile home.
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
It is a white, upper middle class value that remembering is good for you. “We’re only trying to help you.”
Run. Run for your worthless life.
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Tim Barrus, Malcolm X
I went to the same Junior High School as Malcolm X. The mind alone. He was not afraid to understand the evolutionary process Homo sapiens experience as change as they age through life. Often, a change of thinking. Malcolm changed his mind all the time. This is an assett. Not…
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Tim Barrus: Friedrich Nietzsche
Nietzsche has been given a bad rap. Almost a disappearance which is tantamount to the academic omission of 1883. Perhaps he’s just to difficult for the normals to understand.