Name: Easy, Big Fella
Duration: P00H03M20S
Description: 'Hoover blankets' was a term for a news paper used as a blanket by the homeless, signifying the effect of president Herbert Hoover on the economy back in the depression.

Easy, Big Fella

from Passing It Off as Art by Pete Davis

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'Hoover blankets' was a term for a news paper used as a blanket by the homeless, signifying the effect of president Herbert Hoover on the economy back in the depression.

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You've got a wish that you couldn't say, but don't tighten your lips or you'll suffocate and pass out. And when you come to I'll be standing there biting my nails down to the bone, and dive on you screaming "I could have sworn you were a goner."

And you've got just enough strength to say "easy, big fella, I'm not going yet," and push me off onto the ground and knock me unconscious.

Simple did as simple was but that's over now and forgotten and put out with my grin and trash cans and streetlights and alley cats singing; plastics and boxes and Hoover blankets waiting to hold me and warm me up 'cause this bath water's getting cold.

Just one time again. Tell me those words so forced and overused, dripping with truth and draining my resistance and I'll say the same notes running through my head all day until they're glued down and stuck in yours forever and ever.

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from Passing It Off as Art, released March 1, 2003
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