Tim Barrus Blog
Posts tagged with New-York-Times
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Tim Barrus in the New York Times
AT NIGHT, THEY PACE you were sleeping and I would sculpt your naked body with the contours of my tongue/ you were that flawless carnal bleeding from your hole/ the inside of my mouth was eros drowned in blood/ in the cold hours of the night, you were awake and…
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Tim Barrus in the New York Times
Our time is over. My time is over. I am on my phone. On my back. Looking at the morning stars and the sunrise dust of light just now warming my world. My mountain Blue Ridge trees have turned bright red and yellow. Those leaves will fall. Autumn has arrived.…
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Tim Barrus New York Times
nytimes.com/2019/09/15/us/border-patrol-culture.html… The Border Patrol built concentration camps. So did the Germany’s We Were Only Following Orders. How many KidsRDead via BP’s capricious whim. How many children have been caged. How many will never see their families again. Who will pay. Us. Us monsters.
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Tim Barrus On Being Touched: New York Times
Long before latin became a language, the politics of rape did not mean the translation we think we understand when someone says rape or writes it. Raped meant kidnapped because the Sabines were raped and kidnapped. There was no word for rape in the same way that today we still…
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Tim Barrus: New York Times: Bone Spurs
Bone spurs. I will not write the King’s name here or anywhere else. That name is now obscene. That name will never be given to any American ship. The name itself is a pornography of hatred, incompetency, and contempt for the rule of law. The King scratches out pieces of…
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Tim Barrus: NY Times: Let’s Have Another Stupid War
Trump has been looking for a war. He could go to war with the State of California. Americans would stand with him shoulder to shoulder because Americans are as fatuous as he is. Trump could invade Vermont, and Americans would applaud. But we have a congress. Oh, really. They could…
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2B Held
I loathe being touched. By anyone. I hate it when they hug me. I freeze. It is a deep flaw within me. I have been battered around enough to see intimacy as a real threat. I have tried to shake it. It will not be undone. They turn toward one…
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Tim Barrus: New York Times: Explaining Death
Explaining the reality of death to a child also means explaining disease. The subjects of stigma and confidentiality are relevant. AIDS is not over. That people still die is rarely in the news. Even doctors still list other direct causes of death which can tend to make counting numbers bogus.…
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Tim Barrus: New York Times: Boys Raped
Some kids have never had real parents. They have always parented themselves. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/16/style/snowplow-parenting-scandal.html?comments#permid=31096013 College admission? I work with young adolescent boys with HIV. In rural Appalachia. Reading about parenting is like reading about Mars. Every boy has been raped. You think not. Overly dramatic. Yet rape is a way of…
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Homelessness Is Hell: Barrus: NYT
A Response to David Brooks in the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/opinion/america-nationalism-diversity-trump.html?comments#permid=29166007 Here’s a question. Is it okay to unequivocally hate America with every molecule of the self. I doubt it. Our idea of what freedom is does not allow the kind of dissent that doesn’t, and never will, fit into…
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Tim Barrus: New York Times
America is over. Done. Discredited. Immoral. Rotten to the core. Ugly. Irreparable. Threatening. Tragic. Useless. Forlorn. Vain. A menace to the planet. Ruled by hate and racism. Sinister. Toxic. Bleak. Oppressive. Funereal. But not terminal. It is already dead. Americans are more than willing (they embrace it) to tolerate the…
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Lake Superior Is Now Toxic With Poison
Tim Barrus: The New York Times There is no global warming because Dear Leader said so, and we all know Dear Leader never, lies. We have ruined our environment, and we are continuing to ruin our environment because the top one percent never have enough. Lake Superior. Lost. We allow…