I Used to Be Drunk

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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“On a day like this with someone like you,”
he began, years ago in a meaningless math class.

I’m right here for now
looking back.

I used to be drunk,
probably only several times a month
but it felt like every day.

Dry bones from dry heaving
and making “I’m gonna kill you” eyes at strangers,
men and women, from behind beer goggles
of intolerance.

Still surprised I never wrapped my truck
around a telephone pole
or smashed into a kid or house.
Surprised I ever barely made it home to the couch
to kick one shoe off with whatever movement I could muster
and pass out with no pillow and no blanket
and never woke up cold.

The headaches and bruises from uncertain origins
were souvenirs
to place gently on our mantles of memories
as they crumbled over a fireplace.

Months passed and we laughed along
with no recollection
and no idea what was happening.

“On a day like this,” he began, years ago.
“sobriety is overwhelming,” I continued
(right here, right now).

“But brief,” he added quietly,
from across the country.