One More Round

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

Heaven smells like cigarettes and whiskey tonight,
like a damp trench coat.
If he wasn’t on the list,
he gave Peter the finger
and turned right around;
the lazy side of his mouth
sneered up in a smile.

The luckiest, he followed her home.
An original outlaw with the soul of a saint.
Peter better know better and chase after and apologize
and shake his hand
and feel the strength of years in it.

The angels could then welcome him on horseback
and return the Highwayman to his promised land
where he could shoot down shooting stars
and hold her close again;
weight and white hair gone,
black boots checked at the door.

Heaven smells like leather tonight
as he pushes past the clouds and golden gates
through the rolling hills and open air
to the porch where he can sit now
next to her with a guitar

and play without blistering a finger
and sing with the thunder.