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Wish You Were Here

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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House-hunting for the brawn and beautiful
paddling down 7-Eleven parking lot bug rivers
that have become floods
and building bridges, or trying to, from me to you
to Baton Rouge
or Boise, Idaho
only because I’ve never been
and I really like potatoes.

Goodbye to an era of stealing from better writers
and hello to all-night diners
and slithering headlights in rainstorms
at 617 Princeton Street
where the curb buckles around a curve
and makes cars look like snakes.

The weight of the water will sink our state one day, I think,
and the strongest will live in towers and skyscrapers
while you and I kick against the current
of a much bigger bug river
that has become all we can see for miles.

Legs will grow weary
wills will weaken
and comedians will own up to every joke.
Her body was exposed but her hand was under the blanket.
Patton would’ve needed a tank to bypass my walls
of uneasiness and disrespect.

All the more reason to smile
as the rain lands on my good senses
and I dream of a world without fences
and plenty of waterfalls

plenty of pilot lights
low flying aircraft at night,
slicing through the thin clouds,
not looking to rescue anyone,
just gazing down
with small town girl bewilderment.

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from Perfect Sleeping Weather, released January 1, 2021

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Larry Fulford is a writer and comedian and used to play a bunch of drums.

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