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Rock of Calvary

from Prison Boxing by Cataldo

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I'll need some convincing before I sleep
with a new heart where you once thumped next to me.
Hey you, “absence!” You're just my type.
You feel cooler on warmer nights, alright

There's always a fallout, a sometimes subtle shift
of light pouring through an orange sky. The same general objects a tiny bit different.
Your anchor’s a loose end--
boat untethered with a dull knife in your hand.


And even an evergreen can get sick you see.
And Indian kerosene
Still needs a spark to light up a scene.
And antiquity
is filled with little stones like you and me,
cracked and burdened with meaning
like the rock of Calvary.

I hear a whisper right behind my wall
in my tone of voice, inflection, and word choice, damn near identical.
Saying “beg for her back.”
It’s one of two: a genius a cynic; a short money move or the most prescient act, yeah.

So look out to the garden--there's a good deal of unrest
with marigolds repelling scores of invasive insects towards bats and a quick death.
So why look so surprised?
I'm an afid, and you're a carrot fly.

And even an evergreen can get sick you see.
And Indian kerosene
Still needs a spark to light up a scene.
And antiquity
is filled with little stones like you and me,
cracked and burdened with meaning
like the rock of Calvary.

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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

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