Teak and E

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

Stellar performance, your suicide
in the last three minutes of my Thursday
confusing hermits for heroes who couldn’t save themselves
let alone anyone else.
You’ve got it all backwards, man,
buying before even seeing the ads.

She said her body’d been to hell and back
to which I replied, “At least it came back.”

A cat would be dead by now.
In fact, two cats are dead now
and so is a mother
but not this mother.
Not today.

Her good leg lifts her bad leg
so I can wheel her from office to office.
Her good hand cradles her useless hand
but she’s always on time.

She hates that she’s in bed by 5:30,
says, “That’s when old people go to sleep.”
And she’s 50-something.
A real stubborn cunt.
Death must have black eyes and a cracked jaw and throbbing balls
‘cause she ain’t giving up.