Binary Star

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twice, and I’ve become so entwined with it that I’m reluctant to talk about the subject at length. Let me just say that I’ve never read anything like it.”

HARRY MATHEWS

“Two lost souls hurtle through a long, dark night where drug store fluorescents light up fashion magazine headlines and the bad flarf of the pharmacy: Hydroxycut, Seroquel, Ativan, Zantrex-3. Gerard’s young lovers rightly revolt against the insane standards of a sick society, but their pursuit of purity — ideological, mental, physical — comes to constitute another kind of impossible demand, all the more dangerous for being self-imposed.

Binary Star

is merciless and cyclonic, a true and brutal poem of obliteration, an all-American death chant whose chorus is ‘I want to look at the sky and understand.’”

JUSTIN TAYLOR

I am a white dwarf.

I spend all my energy, compress my core, I ionize electrons.

Each night, I find the burning center of my hunger alone in my apartment. The walls breathe the space between them and the distance tastes metallic.

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