Tim Barrus Blog

  1. Tim Barrus: The Case for All Things


  2. Tim Barrus: The Desire From Year to Year to Do Something Completely New To the Universe

    blizzard of the winter dust that year when you escaped/ i don’t think I ever did, i could not do that today/ when you are young just over some other wall, somewhere else untouched like her darkening lips/

  3. Tim Barrus: You Are Hearing Voices


  4. Tim Barrus: The New York Times

    Sometimes Kara seems like she might have lost her edge. Kushner is hopeful. I am not here to dish him. I’m just not hopeful. It seems like an easy intellectual out to me.

  5. Tim Barrus: Interviews: I Did Not Say That

    I Never Said Half The Shit Attributed To Me 1: You don’t even know me. 2. Who the Fuck Are You. 3. Don’t Answer That. 4. I Don’t Know You So Fuck Off 5. I Don’t Know What Any Books Mean. What Books. Go away. 6. Yes, I am a…

  6. Tim Barrus: Some Creative Misfits Get It

    Some odd creative types construct their own reality. Not too much gets through.

  7. Tim Barrus: New York Times

    I am a communist. I live in Appalachia. In this destitute, impoverished, addicted little hard-scrabble scratch on the planet, the homeless live in abandoned trailers, secret campsites, and in close proximity to dumpsters. It is harder for some of us – those of us with disabilities – to remain in

  8. Tim Barrus: Carry Your Helmet

    The bike was my only transportation. When I was not on the bike, I carried my helmet. Pretty much everywhere. Often, my autism prevents me from understanding what you are talking about. Your way of seeing the world is not the world I know or see. I won’t know what…

  9. Tim Barrus, New York Times

    I am a communist. It’s the shunning that is deadly stuff. Example: Shame over HIV in a small community leads kinda fast to the forbidden, gay anal sex idea (run for your life) not unlike a photographic imprint wrapped around your head with a road map on your face. Just

  10. Tim Barrus: We Could Join the Circus

    The crows were let loose upon you. Gone without a word. The shiney objects were the swords in your eyes.