What the Kid Can Give

4 this relationship 2 work, you have to be open to taking what the kid can give/ it might not be much/ often, boys at risk will only give you a small opportunity to break through the walls they build to survive/ you have to meet him as an equal/…

Bain

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Brandon

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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…

DRIVING THE TIME MACHINE

look, it’s a truck, the only time i am allowed in their private world – or for that matter any adult is allowed in their private world – is when i am driving the time machine/ their beds were dragged up to the roof where they sleep in a time…

But For This

Tim Barrus in the New York Times: Boys Who Do Sex Work

I teach boys called the Hard To Reach. More stigma. Most have done lots of sex work. Many have HIV. Some have starred in porn where the age of consent is fluid, often fictional, and enhanced youth in post-production. My work is exhausting and most traditional teachers vividly do not…

The Motel

I always run out of needle boxes. The murders at The Motel are not your average slash and cut affairs in showers. It’s far more complex than that. It’s just not a place you would bring up the subject of HIV in any conceivable conversation. Tired tourists who find their…

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…

I Was Focused on Autumn’s Cumming

i was focused on autumn’s cumming when that time of death and frost ejaculated in my mouth autumn itself was arrogant with the bitter days riding ponies through the shadows of woods fallen away and split with slashes of red freezing on my many hungry tongues and traveling road trips…

Under Those Dark Barren Stars of Straw

under those dark barren stars of straw which one of you is ever really alone you are never alone or stand in apprehension living less than the dead with their machines whose tongues amid the slim partitions through open windows your famished sheets still feast upon and those light asswipe…

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…