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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…
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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,…
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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…
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Tim Barrus
You do not know me. You cannot understand my head space. Do not try.
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Tim Barrus
A year ago, I was yelling at the NYT to stop what with the – This Might Happen – scenario, and why couldn’t institutions become cognizant that this was happening while it was happening. Waiting to see what might happen seemed totally and utterly irresponsible. But institutions (like the media)…
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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…
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Tim Barrus
Black. White. Moody.
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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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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…
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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…
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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.…
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Tim Barrus
“Find what you love and let it kill you.” – Charles Bukowski
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Tim Barrus New York Times
tim barrus Take notes. The world is not your oyster. This piece is your all-too-usual garden variety photographic retouched post production brochure invigorated adventure with no regard whatsoever for the dramatic impact tourism has on the lives of the people who actually live in these places because you make it…
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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…
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TimBarrusNewYorkTimes
Take notes. Baring witness is important. I do not know why. But the idea that you can talk armed soldiers out of using Rape as a weapon of war is patently absurd and beneath contempt. Who do you think will be shot in the face next. You. Will be shot…
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We Are Not Like Other People
Bad Autistic by Time Barrus
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Your Mouth
the last time I touched your soft lips with my fingers/ you put those fingers in your mouth/ tasting dreams/ but by the wind grieved, ghost/ we wrote that book together/ the ice machine was just outside the room/ it sounded like the USS Enterprise/ smoking ass/ but you cannot…
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Tim Barrus: Let’s Get Rid of SCOTUS
Take notes. There are two Americas. The rich tribe. And the poor tribe. Nothing of significance in between. The senate is the rich guys. They never go down without a blood feud. The House of Representatives is also with the rich guys. They do go down regularly. The bottom is…
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Tim Barrus: Out Into the Lake
This is where I come to stay sane. I pour myself into my books. Writing stuff. I don’t even know what a writer is. Stories are complex. Walking helps to see into the cracks and shadows.
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There is no Art in Appalachia
There is no art in Appalachia. There is corruption though. Some of these suits are more crooked than a barrel of fishhooks. Unless you view what are, in fact, trinkets, or photographs of water running pastoral streams and dreams through the deep woods. Anyone can do those those things. That…
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Taking Photographs of Other Photographs
The Great American Novel is a novel by Tim Barrus. Release the doves.
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Movie Stars On a Bench
My personal take on this photo has to do with class. Americans live in a Somalia of our making. The Appalachian poor have suicide rates that only keep going up. Those figures kickass Up&Up&Up&Up. Appalachia wrestles with deeply ingrained medieval poverty like no other place on earth. Social statistics for…
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Still Hopeful
Tim Barrus Art Student
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Jimmy
Take the Red Pill
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Lake Michigan Dunes
Lake Michigan Dunes