Equestrian Park

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

at a casino in Amsterdam
he throws caution to the wind
bets the gambler, not the hand,
and walks away with 250 euros.

Fleetwood Mac breathes through a speaker
with a sinus problem
but children still get older
and I get older too.
David appears and disappears and reappears
smelling like permanent markers
and notebook paper
never smiling
and I get older too.

the last hurricane destroyed the
already decrepit roof over the stables
at Equestrian Park
and some of the more motivated children
used the sturdier planks
for skateboard ramps
(built their lives
around you).

the sleepy horses, like elder statesmen, survived,
relocated to the general manager's private farm.
and when they die from snakebites
or natural causes
some of the more motivated children
will use their manes as brooms
to sweep all this under the rug.