Love, Dust, and Spare Tires

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

Maybe mom was right.
Maybe this is a good place to die
and rest forever with the squirrels.

Music used to mean so much.
Now, after the sudden passing a few weeks ago,
I wonder why I care so much.

The importance of a timeless lullaby tucking soft babies in
glows against the darkening of a sky without birds.

A secondary relationship;
doctors can sew sons and husbands up
and keep life alive with tubes, monitors,
more tubes, and needles.

A long-ago bond we broke with years.
I should call
and let you know I’m sorry
but I wouldn’t know where to begin.

Love, dust, and spare tires.
I couldn’t remember her name
until I remembered the van
where it was written.