Prove Me Wrong

sailors sail/ usually far away/ tell me stories/ sex stories/ i love cheap sex stories/ reading them is still a/ political act/ all i want is some surrender, surrender to the moment, I want something to look like this genocide this time, too, just like this// sweet jesus jesus there…

Tim Barrus Blog

“All politics to existential conflict.” The term: “The Left” is an existential crutch. ” Who are these people. The Left. It’s an illusion. There is no such thing as the left, and any war against people who do not exist is a little silly. The left, the left, the left,…

Dog Landing

His name is Romeo Void. Late twenties, six feet, red hair, leather jacket, no T, crucifix, silver chain, drives black Honda 850, red hair, six feet, extremely articulate, Irish, we meet in a Dublin pup. I still find it kinda strange. Romeo knows a lot about a lot. He answers…

Tim Barrus

I do not believe America is worth it. Just writing this, is a political act. People claim: “I finally have my new house.” No. The bank owns your house. The bank decides. Most Americans own a car. The bank owns your car, too. Childcare is seen as women’s work. Their…

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The American people have capitulated. Surrendered. I have seen the list of young girls as victims. But I see no list of the old white powerful rich men who sexually assaulted and raped the girls. No list. No one can see it. No one is allowed to touch it. Secret…

I DO NOT GIVE A FUCK ABOUT CHARLIE KIRK

It’s too convenient. The Deviant will take his armies to end elections forever. Police departments will now be compelled to assist the military, and they are hot to trot on a good day. ICE reigns supreme. Yesterday, I saw ICE dragging children out of a trailer in a trailer park…

TOAD

Tim Barrus Art

Bad Autistic

all of my sunsets are blood red/ and there will be a horizon, and probably a cliff/ i learned how to drive on a tractor, age nine, in that race to be ten/ i was scared to death/ i cannot say, he was wrong to do it, but all of…

Tim Barrus

Black. White. Moody.

Tim Barrus

Walking has become increasingly more and more difficult. I told my bones that MRI smilies are inappropriate. The elbow crutches are a work of wonder. I am now off the dirt bike. My eyes to the sky. I know I will ride it one more time. “Fall in love with…

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Rome’s senate was a wildly dangerous place to be anywhere around. Most Roman emperors ended up as murder victims. I am not sure if the word victim is appropriate. The senators were always poisoning one another. Kidnapping one another. Executing one another. Plotting against one another. Murdering one another’s relatives…

Tim Barrrus

It’s all a question of risk and the odds risk plays with. Did you know that when we sit down to cards and blackjack, what we are reading is the Book of Ashes, and the room, it’s always the same game. There are only so many odds that we carry…

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I am autistic (I am suppose to say neurodivergent).  What does that mean. It means I wear a mask when I am not sleeping. When you wear the mask, Other People think they are seeing the real thing. You do not want to know the real thing. Any friendliness I…

Tim Barrus New York Times

I am going to use a word you will not approve of. Because your addiction for what you think is the truth is easily misperceived. The word I am going to use is the word fetish. This is not limited to sex or sexuality alone. I would argue that the…

Tim Barrus

THE NEW YORK TIMES REFUSES TO PUBLISH THIS — IT’S TOO CLOSE TO HOME — THEY DO NOT ALWAYS GET THE STORY, THEY ARE AS COLD AS A PEDOPHILE, WHY SHOULD ANYONE TALK TO THEM, SHRUGS — IT’S NOT INSTITUTIONAL, IT’S ABOUT GENOCIDE, AND PEOPLE, TOUGH STORY TO CRACK, BUT…

TIM BARRUS

ABOLISH ICE I live in Appalachia. Just down the dirt road, there’s a sight impossible to miss. Knotted down to the entrails of the earth, there’s a sick soaked spot that was a mountain. We blew mountains up for coal, and we will do it again. PBS was on it.…

Tim Barrus Writes the Bluez

21 a novel by tim barrus  NEW ORLEANS GENTILLY ROAD MOTEL We had become Invisible. The guns we were buying — this time, too — were dubious at best. Cervantes was late. Being punctual was odd. For homo sapiens sapiens. It meant something ominous. A punctual pattern. There is no…

Tim Barrus New York Times

The New York Times has published my response to a beautiful film they have released about bearing witness to the grief that has descended on the earth, and the earth has had enough. This is filmmaking.I am totally knocked out with this. Thank you for – the simplicity – it…

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“Find what you love and let it kill you.” – Charles Bukowski

Tim Barrus

Paris art seems very gritty.

Tim Barrus

I can’t think of three other journalists I would rather listen to. These three cut through issues boom, boom, boom. Thank you. A cogent conversation. Now is the time for the Normals to remember. The TV was darkened to bible black images of the dead being thrown into the backs…

Tim Barrus: Dirt Bike Town

Tim Barrus New York Times

Take Notes Standardize. Regularize. Arrange. Conform. Anneal. Temper. Methodize. Sort Out. Balance. Control. These are the rapist’s tools. He applies them to a canvas, and we are that canvas. No mention here of the term rapist. This is what normalization means. It’s called cherry-picking. If we all play polite, maybe…

Tim Barrus Car Thieves

of his bones/ like blackboards built from fingernails/ instinctively full fathoms five/ summer is done/ i said done/ it will never be done/ fingering her/ in the new car/ no fun no fun no fun/ a grey rolls royce/ is definitely fun/ 

Tim Barrus New York Times

Take notes. Great piece. I appreciate the research, because it points out the lack of research. But. It goes to law, and I appreciate that, too. What I’m looking at these days is not based in gender issues. It’s based in violence. I was teaching a group of adolescents with…