No Dog, No Woman, No Truck, No Happy Ending

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

Country stars tell jokes I’d laugh at maybe
if I were five years old
and single out all the good Australia has to offer.

This guy’s way too pretty to be a cowboy
with his scarecrow mane and silk shirt
unbuttoned halfway to his waist
revealing his silk chest
with no scars over his hairless heart.

This man has never thrown a rope
this man has never fallen off a horse
this man searches desperately for Band-Aids
when he bleeds.

Country music needs bruises
apple pie at suppertime and blood on its boots
not actors with half-decent voices
who’ve half-perfected southern accents
and bad jokes and hired guns.

She asked why all my writing sounded like a sigh and never
had a happy ending.

I don’t know.
Maybe one day it won’t
and it will.