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Tim Barrus, New York Times
Trump’s Shit Stinks
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Tim Barrus: You Always Did Jump for Joy
You were either high (and all of its variations) or you were low (and all of its variations). You had flown up a tree not unlike Peter Pan. “I’m flyiiiiinnnngggg.” Peter is a naughty boy. You have no idea. How naughty is Pan, anyway. The question is not worthy of…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
I am actually hard on the South. A jaundiced eye. Never use a radiator. We grow great corn around here. I’ve never seen a still. But I have heard whispers about them.
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
I live at the top of a mountain in the Blue Ridge. I ride a dirt bike. Street bikers think I’m nuts. But who needs a helmet anyway. I am thinking America in my hair. When I ride into a city, someone tries to steal my bike. I have caught…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
The poor today will be the poor tomorrow and slavery – hope is ephemeral and is called a job given out with cold regard to the Homo sapiens on the exhausted planet. Let’s dig some coal. And dig and dig and dig our way to splendid riches. I mean, what…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
Or how do you live in a broom closet.
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AN OCEAN WITHOUT SHORES
I am a communist. I spend my time traveling around America – because I want to. I ride a dirt bike. Not a conservative street bike your Daddy loved. Conservatism makes absolutely no sense after what I have seen, listened to, argued with, and smelled the smoke from animals on…