This Cup Makes a Statement About You

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

Everything is falling into place.
I look out the window in time
to see a tow truck hauling a
cherry red something-or-other
and I might as well be staring out
into the Canadian wilderness
from the warmth of a log cabin I’ve inherited,
with snow growing off the trees
and friendly bears nowhere to be seen.

The now-consumed greasy number 3
might as well have been a fresh salad,
a turkey sandwich from a pic-a-nic basket
I’m sharing with the kind of girl
who could stop a train with her smile.

The bug I can’t describe that crawled
very near me a few minutes ago
was simply on his way to the window to look for bears.
Bugs don’t know about hibernation.
I’d explain it to him but he’s gone now
and not seeing bears.

Her keychain said “Zero to Bitch in 3.5 seconds”
and I’ll be damned if she didn’t prove it right.
Ivy League teeth chomping at the bit
to rear up and ruin someone’s otherwise uneventful afternoon.

In short: she did and said
everything she was supposed to
and fell into place
like a log stacked on a log,
building the walls of this cabin
passed down from generation to generation
generation to generation.