Cry Perfume
By Sadie Dupuis
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Lyrical poems that engage with grief and loss and the toll of overdose and addiction with an activist bent.
The title of Cry Perfume is an imperative to bottle sorrow in a beautiful vessel and shed the chemicals that cloud your sight. Written over a four-year period on tour and after losing loved ones and peers to overdose, Dupuis funneled complicated grief into harm reduction advocacy, working to fundraise for and distribute overdose prevention resources in venues internationally.
The slick performativity of pop, punk humor, electronic glitch and sampling, and the surprising leaps of improvisation influence these poems, but beyond music, these poems are informed by Dupuis’s larger concerns about justice and organizing. Cry Perfume is a hopeful but realistic inventory of the virtues and evils that emerge when arts and tech collide. Those dualities are cloaked in the same sparkling fragrance, and there are twinned pleasures and regrets in parting the smokescreen.
Sadie Dupuis
Sadie Dupuis is the guitarist, songwriter, and singer for the rock band Speedy Ortiz, as well as the producer and multi-instrumentalist behind pop project Sad13. She heads the record label Wax Nine, edits its poetry journal, and is the author of Mouthguard. She lives in Philadelphia.
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Cry Perfume - Sadie Dupuis
Copyright © 2022 by Sadie Dupuis
All rights reserved.
To reprint, reproduce, or transmit electronically, or by recording all or part of this manuscript, beyond brief reviews or educational purposes, please send a written request to the publisher at:
Black Ocean
P.O. Box 52030
Boston, MA 02205
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Cover Art and Design by Julian Montague
Book Design by Anuj Mathur
ISBN: 978-1-939568-70-0
Library of Congress Control Number: 2022933042
The text of Cry Perfume is set in Filson Pro and Goudy Old Style. Earlier versions of some of these poems were first published in Blush Lit, Folkadelphia, Ghost Proposal, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Hobart Pulp, Midst, Mutiny!, New South, On Loan from the Cosmos, Voicemail Poems, and Yes Poetry.
FIRST EDITION
Contents
BLACK NUMBER
Fake Blood on a Fake Fur Coat
Parking for the Funeral
Crystal Thinking
Chateau Marmont but for Free
Shout Out to My Hex
White Diamond
Outreach from an Open Window
Come Over Make Mac and Cheese :)
Star Wars Is for Me
Your Shirt Still Smells Like You
Palindrome Day
Hi It’s Sad
Hold Presser
Screamer
Don’t Say a Word
Steal My Sunshine
VIOLET NOISE
There’s No American Beach You Like
Crack My Back
View-Master Classic
Oh God I Just Watched a Man
Most Beautiful Snail of Disneyland
Anaheim Without Sun
The Lance Goes Through
Limerance
Bowling a 666
Names Changed
Ten Minute Set Time
And This Man Doesn’t Want to Make Music With Me
May the Bodysnatch Kick In
My Saturnalia
GREEN SPELL
My Pretty Poet
One Site Posts to the Other
Lol
Translation Own
Freefall Through a Black Hole
I Tried All the Free Trials
Horse Haven Road
The Third Place
Figure Four
First Time Caller
Watching Streaming With My Married Friends
Invoicing
Asdfghjkl
Congenital Sunburn
Eric
The Great Outdoer
Cats Was Not Realistic
Remarkable Pig
Hot to Death
Are You Dealing With More Stress
RED ARSENIC
Codeine Ruse
I’m So Tired by The Beatles
Beta Blocker
Nobody Strength
Satan’s Birthday
Same Name Head Wound
Girl Who Ignores Me
Opening Ceremony Closing
Your Microdose
Letter to My Acolyte
Brain Shank
I Think You Just Called Me
Thanking the Clouds
Nah
Bulldog Me in Salted Water
Weird Touch I Spat as She Spidered
BLUE HOUR
Full Worm Moon
Infernal Catalog
Last Night Was My Night
Getaway Car With a Billionaire
Smart Enough to Play Along
Eucalyptus Paycheck
Yes Tears Left to Cry
Fuck No to All That
Be My Valentine II
Train Trundling, Hares Nickering
Oh My God Shoes
Hostage