Tim Barrus Blog
Posts tagged with indifference
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GoingRogue: SexWork: BoyWhores
GoingRogue. We’ve been traveling on my bike town-to-town, and we’ve been busy as all hell. I take Andrew with me because he was once a major whore. He raked it in. But drug dealing is more money. Like I care. As if. Andrew projects the tone of authenticity. He can…
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Assisted Suicide Should Be a Federal Holiday Like Christmas
assisted suicide could go a long way toward ending medical abuse the abuse we endure letting them inside us after they abuse us they have to kill us you know it’s what they want you can smell it like the water from the lake drips from the towels hung on…
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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: The New York Times: Growing Old in America
Poverty is a cycle. It comes. It goes. It eats its young. It decimates its old. It is not unlike the people who inhabit it. Tara Parker-Pope’s statement in the New York Times: Getting older is inevitable (and certainly better than the alternative) stuns me. We are afraid of death.…