Paige Johnson’s debut poetry book, Percocet Summer blurs noir and dirty realism like a Lana Del Rey love song.

Inspired by a rainbow array of drug fiends and fiended-over druggies, Percocet Summer encompasses the rush of the solstice, odd obsessions, and other crushables (people and pills and moods). From Florida sweat to Georgia peach sweetness, NYC high-rollers to skidding-by wannabes, these 35+ illustrated poems cover all the shady crevices of a summer well-wasted. We’re talking the lows of eating disorders and intervention, to the throes of psychedelia and romance, to the in-betweens of internet celebrity and international and inter-dimensional travel. Gas station syringes and cotton candy softness, rap-fast slang to gushy Valentine verses, cheeky loves to sophisticated manipulators.

This is the first installment of the four-part series Seasonal Dissociation: Poetry for Distancing Dates and Doses. Other titles include Cracked Leaves & Autumn Lines, Citrus Springs, and Aurora Shards of Winter.

*Note: This eBook is a print replica to preserve formatting and illustration integrity.

Poems featured: Circular Motions, Garter Belts in the Garden, Bioluminescence, Sunshine Idol, An Icebox in Brooklyn, Fire Escape Sunsets, Circling Saturn, Soulspun, Sweetwater Talker, Carpet-bagging, Phone Sex, Super 8, eBait, Jumping Satellites, SWIMing w/ Sharks, Fishscale, Morning Glory, Beneath the Shadow & Lo(wer), Al Fresco, Rock Candy Renegade, Bubble Wand Waif, Tilted, Blackout
Dates, How Did I Get Here?, The Big Peach Pit, Campsite Skin, Nightshade, The Scent of a Woman, New Development, Svedka Blue, Etizolamb, Numb Gum Days, Painkiller, Don’t Daydream, Strawberry Panic, Hollywood(,FL), Breakthrough Dose.