Battles

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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your bed is a battleground
where hearts and body parts fight it out,
sticking to sheets and twigs and crumbs,
rolling through recesses
and field trips to planetariums
to see stars cling to heaven like dead celebrities.

freckles on your chest
and my crooked teeth clenched
for every dead soldier and limping lieutenant
who held fast to their empty guns
and raced forth with bent bayonets.

this will soak up rainwater
on the side of the street
next to a For Rent sign
and never be treasured
as a historical site.
but I'll know better
until the next drink dropkicks this memory out of my head
so hard the helmet doesn't feel a thing.

veterans of the longest war,
retiring to bar stools and drinking
on Uncle Sam's dime.
on the lam, draft dodgers lived longer than patriots.

in your golden years
please carry a flag that is really a sheet
to my headstone
and cover me one last time
in love and sticks and crumbs.