Speaks in Code

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

When god really talks, I bet he sounds
like he’s talking through a city bus’ radio
and speaks in code designed to
stick to the basics.

Reading comics instead of talking to our moms,
we’ve all been disappointments at some point.

There’s a grocery store with a Coinstar
not four blocks away
but she rolls the dusty change
that’s grown like a desperate plant
in an old mason jar.

Keeps her hands busy
when they’re not busy being folded.

With skin as pale as the dead kid decal
on the rear window of her Blazer,
she prays to no one in particular
that next year will be better
with more room between the months and days
to catch her breath
and stretch her legs.

Reading comics instead of talking to our moms,
we’re all disappointments at some point.