With the Wolves

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

A step off a ledge and she’s sinking
to the bottom of a brick pool,
stabbed adrenaline into her chest, hard.

A tour guide by day, nights are spent
betting on greyhounds named
Star Party and Dionysius.

And after one more afternoon
of waking up in a stranger’s backseat
with a racing form stuck to her thigh,
she’s justified stepping over the barricades
to run with the white wolves.

The tourists can take all the pictures they want
and zoom in on her eyes
and Cheshire grin
and they can bet on who will win —
the wolves or the girl.

Unable to agree on names, they’ll call the wolves
Wolf 1, Wolf 2, etc.
and call the girl Crazy Lady.

There,
there is your happy ending
racing to the edge of whatever.