Walletful of Photographs

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

if you stare at someone long enough
eventually you’ll catch their eye.
throw it back
smack it with a baseball bat
with the force of a racehorse
because you didn’t recognize anyone in the home movies
because two people care about you hard enough
to squeal when you say the right thing
or even the wrong thing.

this rash better be gone when I wake up.

the kids in the living room were bored.
it was written all over their faces
in 100 different languages.
maybe that’s why you didn’t recognize anybody.
their faces were shrouded in Hebrew and Japanese
and poor penmanship.

but no one was paying attention
until you played their favorite song
and opened up the evening like a
bad Brink’s job,
showering cash on those faces
smearing words in 100 different languages.

they waited their turns to perform and amaze us.
your angst was as sincere as a well-rehearsed cover song
and so am I.

circles of friends
sick little support groups.
a few spokes snap
and the whole wheel collapses
and you’re left with cake on your face
and there are eggs in cakes.

bound on/for the floor
playing Russian roulette with a gun
you made with a finger and thumb.