Tim Barrus Blog
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Tim Barrus: No One in Appalachia is Surprised.
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folks who live here see him as just an ordinary bitter old drunk/ no different from any other walking dead man/ there are so many things he has to answer for/ like what does he really believe/ in/ if anything/ you won’t listen to this, but he believes in three…
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Tim Barrus: The Dead and the Whitened Fields Against a Sky of Prisons, Slavery, and Windows Nailed Shut as Thunderbolts
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The rich are thieves, and they know it. They will kick your fat ass if you dare to articulate any ziggy signs of human lucidity. And Homo sapiens kill one another and make money at it. The rich are mean. Ask anyone who has ever worked for them cleaning up…
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Tim Barrus: Is It a Heretic Pursued by Carnivors Times Ten And Crept Upon Those Stairs She Would Be Rich With Strange Enough
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Time’s music. Dark. Backward. Past grief. Past memory. Gin by Noon. I give the dead LSD to suck on when they die, I hold them shivering in their bones of Armagedon. Famine will require patience.
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Tim Barrus: Harm That The Wise Powers Deny
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I drove into town today. The streets are ghosts of mist. Lonely chimeras. Kingdoms. Provinces. It was slippery but my nobby tread worked wonders. I can’t wear the medical mask when I am on the road. I’ve done it for over two years. But today was cold rain so the…
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Tim Barrus: Riots Have Consequences
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I am a communist. It is too desperate to watch Americans twist in the winds of change that they created. They put Manchin where he is. He’s the Old White Men Are Still Running The Dog And Pony Show Burlesque Act, and twisting plates to spin by themselves. And watch…
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Tim Barrus: America Is A Scarecrow Whose Eyes Have Been Pecked By Birds
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The carnival whirligigs of time bring their wormholes and their black holes and their hole holes to Melancholy Revenges Weary Of Being Consistently Undone.
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Tim Barrus: It is the Church Itself That Rapes Young Boys
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I am a communist. Any Church that fundamentally facilitates the Something Wicked This Way Comes Road Map, must confess their sins called sexual violence. You cannot escape it by pretending how normal the Church Is. The Church is the rape of boys. Not really rape, right. Wrong. The whole dog…
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Tim Barrus: How Much Wood Do U Have 2 Chop 2 Survive A Winter Here
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I am a communist. A friend and I rode shotgun on my dirt bike – riot to riot – armed with cameras. Through fires because we did not think a forest fire would inundate entire towns. New York Times readers were enraged about this trip. Where is my mask. Under…
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Tim Barrus: Witches Do Not Have a Divided Duty
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Internal Dialogues. Voices. Desire. Where Is It Written That I Am Obligated To Tell You What Is Real. What has passed the tests of time, and how to break a crackerjack.
Choose. One. That fits.
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Tim Barrus: Highway Robbery
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It seemed we all had Second Selves.
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I am a communist. Ego or go home. You knew there would be a book. About it. There’s a book about everything, right. Wrong. What can possibly be Socratic about Love In the Afternoon. What do you mean, Love In the Afternoon.…