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Cash on the Barrel

from Prison Boxing by Cataldo

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How much wind rushing
can make your heart burn,
make the ashes swirl?
And no discussion
can spark a cold coal.
You can still smell the smoke

when you wake with it clinging to your clothes.
It’d be a bad mistake not to tell her that you love her though.

But you are not a savior--
you’re a long awaited male heir
You’re clear blue water rushing through my hair.

Cash on the barrel:
I can’t offer much that will make you blush.
But shake them out, when they’re unfurled
in bare light of day a moonlight paper crane
with some work you don’t deserve or not deserve kid
will show you quote-unquote just to prove your intuition.

That you are not a savior:
you’re a breath-takingly comfortable pew.
And all I’ll genuflect to is me and you.

But what is more infatuating than infatuation?
And what beauty is ever revealed without a revelation?
So love move like a glacier slowly.
If you can carve up a mountain please show me.

You are not a savior:
you’re a mansion
seemingly built by me for me in some past life.
(you are not a savior)
With shifting amenities,
a crackshot caretaking team,
where you can have whatever you like.
(You are not a savior)
You can have whatever you like.
A 1st mate in the captains seat.
(you are not a savior)
The dead alive and apple cheeked.
(you are not a savior)

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from Prison Boxing, released September 20, 2011

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Cataldo has been hailed as “the rare kind of artist who’s able to absorb the chaotic world around him and distill it into crystalline song” by American Songwriter. Keepers has been welcomed as “nostalgic, and effortlessly, poetically profound,” by Nylon and “wistful and hopeful and beautiful, a brightly emotive yet understated slow-build." by Stereogum. ... more

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