The Pounds Will Be with You Longer Than the Taste

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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Four-odd years from
a high school reunion.
Burning minutes to the filter.
It’s high time we heard
the cattle call and
moved toward their bellows,
surprised ourselves
like a car accident.

“Take a break … see my friends … sleep.”
- the kid in front of me, talking to his mom.

It’s reunion day.
Pressing flesh
and kissing babies.

You don’t have to fire blanks into the air
to understand distance,
eat so fast your stomach bursts
and muddy food really sticks
to your ribs.

The pounds will be with you longer than the taste.
The years will turn into lines all over your face
so that every time you look into a mirror
you remember.