The Struggle Between the Moon, and the Moon, the Seas in Seas

THERE ARE IN MANY WAYS MANY THINGS THAT DID ATTRACT HIM, DESIRED HIM, TOO. EACH STEP IN CYNACISM. BETWEEN WHICH NOON AND NOON AND SEA IN SEAS. WAS A BRIDGE TOO FAR. A BRIDGE TOO FAR.

The Unreality of Time

TIM BARRUS, NEW YORK TIMES

I am a communist. In a world that condemns mostly accurate thumping of male chests, that communism was wrong. It was wrong. It cannot be turned around anymore. It’s for losers. I am a loser. Whose disappointment that anything can change, is the solid ground of If Only. If only…

Paganism

Put Your Tongue In My Mouth. Plausability opens tough and sour in prescient surmise invited as evidence. A long laundry list of transgression. You thought I was referring to what we call today. But no. I am referring to the lives you’ve lived to arrive explicitly in this place you…

Dirt Bike Dust

The institution of the Zoo Entertainment Industry is one of the magic card tricks anywhere in the current version of the Card Trick Kingdom. Nut. Nut. Who’s got The Nut. I am here to tell you that the punishment rendered to some animals in these glory shows abuse up close…

fellow travelers

A Tour Through a Pandemic On a Bike. Protest to Protest. City to City. Riot to Riot. America Is a Culture in Crisis. I have no idea if this is fiction or nonfiction. I have RAVNHPB4. One Of The Symptoms Is Neurological Hemorrhagic Dementia. Internal Bleeding Of The Brain. I…

U HAVE CLAIMED WHAT WHAT DO YOU HAVE A COVEN MEETING TONIGHT

i know all the fucking secrets the poor down the dirt road are running out of wood again they are hoping for an early spring it’s cold today it never freezes in the how cold is it cold as a witch’s tit mother’s arthritic hands moved like bats and their…

Tim Barrus, New York Times

Going Rogue We are the culture of greed, death, indifference, cruelty, mass incarceration, poverty, hunger, suspicion, hate, patriarchal monarchy disguised as democracy, and genocide. Within the context of that evil, bête noire – exactly how is that any different from the cultural nightmare that was ancient Rome’s legacy to the…

Riding Shotgun

Death Coin for the Boatman

Tim Barrus New York Times I work with adolescents who are medically fragile. Covid would kill them. Poverty is killing them, and not softly. Their family structures have broken down. There isn’t a single adult in the accumulated families of the group who has work. People are suffering and looking…

what we love

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Sitting on Cars

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Catch a Boat

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Tim Barrus: New York Times

How it is that time after time capitalism totally fails us. We become desperate to find ways to prop it up. We fix the car with binder twine. We fall upon our swords of theory. We reinforce conformity and never structure. We tweak it here and there. We shower a…

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…

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

Tim Barrus: The New York Times

The Kind Of Cultures We Need Versus The KindOf Cultures We do Not Need. Like The One We Are Living In. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/11/opinion/coronavirus-us-cities-inequality.html#commentsContainer&permid=106986749:106986749 How detention for children inside the foster care monster machine (they are all monster machines designed to pubish children) became foster care is beyond my limited imagination. But…

Tim Barrus In the New York Times

TRUMP IS THE MEDIA’S FETISH Never mind the mask. It is simply accoutrement. I want to imply the word fetish. Trump is the media’s fetish. The media’s fetish for covering Trump is not simply covering Trump. It is covering lies with the excuse that lies are news. Lies are not…

Appalachia Town

Tim Barrus in the New York Times: Voyeurism

Voyeurism Does Not Mean Exhibitionism My students have HIV. Being tracked to an HIV clinic – repeatedly – draws inferences that are damaging in terms of enormous stigma. People infected are easily tracked by a government eager to know everything. Including who their friends are and where those friends live.…

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: Civil War 2

Trump has also threatened civil war. I assume this would not be a war between the states. More like a a race war, an age war, an economic war, and cages would not be just for children. If you think public executions could never happen here, please update your perception…

Tim Barrus in the New York Times: American Family

What both liberalism and conservatism prop up is mythology. In reality, the American family is a vile, repulsive, and depraved institution whose significance is about power, and has nothing to do with bonding. I do not mean to be uncivil. This is simply what I think, what I have seen,…