A New Kind of Dangerous

from Perfect Sleeping Weather by Larry Fulford

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Scrawled into notebooks from the familiar comforts of temporary homes and the passenger seats of mechanically unsound vehicles adrift on the highways and back roads of America, Perfect Sleeping Weather is fifteen years of thoughts, observations, facts, and fictions hammered into a collection of poetry that, according to one reader, "sounds like a sigh."

In this, his first book, writer/drummer/comedian Larry Fulford reflects on the usual -- life, death, love and leaving -- while still managing to name-check Van Halen. Twice.

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lyrics

Thought I’d quit
the drinks, the streets,
the lying to myself

but I’m still lying to myself.

And I thought you’d only be tossed into my life once
but now Fate’s intervened and played a solid hand.

Caterpillars crawl out of the walls
and dangle down on spider webs.
Remnants of fragments of memory
are swept away and crushed into
a block of familiarity.

It’s easy to keep a drunk’s attention:
simply spur him in the side with your elbow
and offer another of whatever he’s close to done with
and continue talking.
He’ll hang on your every word like he’ll hang on every shoulder on
his way out.

I really shouldn’t go down that path and be like that,
but I know as soon as this shift is over
and my hands are hot
I’ll drive to that block and level myself.

You’ve got my attention,
now what are you going to do with it?

Every week I promise myself I’m turning over a new leaf
only to find that there are dozens of the same leaves
underneath and they’ve been chewed on by caterpillars
and it smells like fire.

Swim with the clown in the drunk tank.
Drown him when you need a bloated body to float on.

I should’ve had an affair
with my high school English teacher
just to have it.