DeeplyEmbeddedWithAntifa

It is the end of an era. And the beginning of a new era. Now, we will be teaming up with the boys – city to city, riot to riot, protest to protest. Writing. Taking pictures. Bearing witness. To whatever is coming next. Evolve or die. It’s All Eve’s Hallo.…

their music is a silence

today, their music is a silence which means they’re usually pissed off at something I did or said what the fuck it’s always something/ as yet a distance between who else themselves/ they are in love/ with one another/ what do they know of loneliness and my wonder at the…

I Want U2 Stay

Tim Barrus: Tied Tight In Your Skin

we cum here with our work/ we call it the hot seat because that is where the poets among us, which means everyone, arrive to sit and read their work/ and it is work, often, it is a lot of work, we see poets in the context of a naked…

Billy Joe’s Bridge

this is the bridge billie joe maccallister jumped from/ it is entirely legal to smoke dope under this sacred bridge/ or so people i know claim/ they could be wrong/ they are wrong a lot/ they are not lawyers/ beware of following their legal advice/ do i appear to be…

metronome

a tell all told 2 cover the lies unpeeled/ earthen swells that are the graves in delicate balance with waiting and waiting and waiting/ the novelty has worn thin/ there is no sun today/ there are only voices collected like a metronome/ https://timbarrus.tumblr.com

Sometimes They Go Back To Where They Lived

When many at-risk boys get kicked out of their home, usually because they come out to their families, fathers seem particularly threatened, the boy will surrender to the dramatic emotion of the moment, frequently leaving behind things they call, My Stuff. Whether they had a lot of stuff in their…

Appalachia Town

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Appalachia Town

Memory’s Machine

lost afternoons justly placed each mirror could be manifest beyond sex work is still work and sweat and humiliation just like any other form of work an arrangement of perspective sheets, walls, scrubbing floors in unison our lips in full abundance we brought along our gods from the pawn shops

Tim Barrus in the New York Times

I work with adolescent boys at-risk. Many have HIV. They are frequently referred to as – the Hard to Reach. A term that carries stigma like a tsunami. I tweet like crazy. Usually about them and me. Relationships matter. AIDS is not over. I want you to know that HIV…

From Day One

from day one he has flown his flag/ it is usually a flag resembling surrender which is never surrender it is more like another declaration of war/ with his orders of this blood-soaked field, the skeletons have never needed god or jerusalem or everything to become clear in a great…

Take Off Your Shirt

Take off your shirt. No, I don’t want people to see me. (I look around) There’s no one here take off your shirt. No, I look like I’m sick. You are sick.  No. Everyone knows you have it. It’s worse when everyone thinks we all died 20 years ago. Take…

Stepping Outside of Convention

VIDEO: Smash Street Boys https://tim-barrus.format.com/cinematheque-films