All America's Teenagers

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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14 hours of angry driving
and tailgating
in a hurry to outrun the rain
and a state I’ll fly to next time
with nothing on his mind
and a gift of fish on ice.

Shreds of tires blown free from the wheels of long-haulers
look like discarded alligator tails;
black, sad, and wet on roadsides near Biloxi.

The hazy eyes of brake lights keep progress moderate,
like today’s Homeland Security terrorist threat.

It’s fascinating to me
that all America’s teenagers
learned to dance the same dances
in time for the arrival of rock ‘n’ roll.

A thought,
alongside memories of ex-lovers and sunburns,
that keeps the whiskey-soaked soul
of this truck rolling through sprays of ghost rain
toward nothing.