Tim Barrus: Through Windows

The Ghosts of Appalachia

Herbert and Helsinki are old. They live on an island in Appalachia. In other words, they’re my neighbors. They have a boat. It is a little boat. They grow corn, make whiskey, and ride shotgun on their dirt bike. My bike is bigger than their bike. Your bike is your…

Tim Barrus, New York Times

When the New York Times talks politics, it will often refer to the Constitution of the United States, a constitution that no has ever read. The New York Times seems so out of touch. No one here in Appalachia has ever seen a constitution. I thought Mr. Constitution knew who…

Tim Barrus: Buying Time: NYT

I am a communist. It doesn’t matter what we believe in. I live by myself on a mountain in Appalachia. I can walk outside and see North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia – and West Virginia. Or clouds which are really smoke stack smoke. Trees gone. We raise ten…

Tim Barrus: The Voice, the Kid, and the River

I am a communist. I am a criminal. No one taught us how to swim. I have long white hair and a long white beard now. My dick is white and cut and pierced and I am from Krypton the real Krypton and they eat snakes they can have mine.…

Tim Barrus: No One in Appalachia is Surprised.

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…

Tim Barrus: Spaceship, Too

I am a communist. That alone gets me in trouble with most people, I think. Poverty has always had the cultures of the world by the throat. How poor were we. There were three of us living in a cabin on a remote lake in upper Michigan. It is apart…

Tim Barrus: The Chemistry of Decay

I have been working Appalachia Town. It’s a little cold on the bike.

Covid and Overdoses

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/10/opinion/9-11-war-military.html?campaign_id=0&emc=edit_cr_20210911&instance_id=0&nl=comments-notifications&regi_id=56243886&segment_id=0&user_id=acf7e0fa0ccfaa274c5a8c73c0976c4a#commentsContainer&permid=114482076:114482076 TIM BARRUS, NEW YORK TIMES I am a communist. America is a Failed State. America is also the biggest Narco-State in the world. I live in Appalachia, and, respectfully. I am here to tell you that Appalachia is lost. Addicted. There is no hope for us. We are the…