Party On, Wayne

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

because Betco rhymes with Petco
and the pennies under my truck
fighting to stick to the gravel
against an onslaught of parking lot river
are just biding their time
(buying their time).

because true love exists only in the choruses
of Tony Bennett songs
and in that inch of space between shoe and dance floor.

because I like the way my hair looks in the rain,
segmented and crazy like I might be holding
a concealed weapon or know answers to
really hard math problems.

because someday a millionaire with a sense of humor
is going to build a day spa called Resort to Violence.

because the fact of the matter is
the only thing that's ever mattered is fiction
and how many lies we can tell in a given amount of time
measures our worth against the determination
of kids who died in clothes dryers
during ambitious games of hide n seek.