Pretending to Care About People

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

“And all those pretty girls who looked like movie stars, they look
pretty ordinary, 28 years old, checking out at Walmart with
babies in their arms.”
- John Moreland, “Your Spell”

She still has her Student Council President smile,
one perfect enough to walk across
like an enamel bridge,
but she no longer has the car she had
when she rear-ended my friend.
I doubt she even remembers it.

She married the son of a senator
and, when she realized she couldn’t
be a professional volleyball player,
got pregnant.

Her globe of a tan belly
shone in the dirty grocery store fluorescence.

I pretended to care about the cover
of a People Magazine,
watching her shop for
tortilla chips and shampoo.