Prison Boxing

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A dispatch from the icy mist to rosy cheeks that I once kissed:
you'll see me go.
My heads already out the door, thinking a month out, maybe more.
And feet will follow,
somewhere a violin bows, and a rock erodes, oh oh.

The prison boxing got to me, the toughest fights you've rarely see
beyond the bars.
Ignore the fists in gloves, the cruiser-weights with eyes swelled shut
and look at them.
No one wins.

Until a room of friends say, “How are you? It’s been too many years.”
And I say, with purity and candor, “I’ve missed you.”

So bring young poppies home to us, forget the roses buttercup.
There’ll be no need.
We’ll plant ‘em row by row, a promise in the ground below
that there will be more.
So swing wide the doors, the not yet buried that I'm ready for.

I won’t press you in a book a flat brown shell of what you were.
I'd never need another look.
Cuz I'm not proud I'm not ashamed I'm not at risk of forgetting your name.
You are an ending
I've found some peace in.

A room of friends say, “How are you? It’s been too many years.”
And I say, with purity and candor, “I’ve missed you.”

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from Prison Boxing, released September 20, 2011

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Cataldo Seattle, Washington

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

discography

Dumber and Older

Oct 2022
Dumber EP

Aug 2022
Older EP

Jul 2022
Literally Main Street

Sep 2019
Keepers

Apr 2017
Gilded Oldies

Mar 2014
Prison Boxing

Sep 2011
Signal Flare

Jul 2008
Cataldo

May 2005

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