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Let's see.

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All right, this one's
called "Fumarole,"

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which is the name for the steam
vent for an underground lava

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or some kind of hot cistern
underneath, the fumarole.

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Beyond the spelunker's
last chossy handfast,

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past the furthest unwind
of a rescuer's line,

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a boy as limber and scabbed
as I got him wedged tight

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in a pinch of granite.

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I have finger-and-toed that
hole, forward inch by inch,

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cheek by rock, have jackknifed
my hipsockets over the jut that

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caught him up, have fumbled
fingerblind for an edge,

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an elbow for leverage,
a pull and then through.

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What I found down in that
hot dark I've forgotten.

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The ground is an oubliette
wherein unechoed, dull,

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the tongue unsings its
hungers, and the human push

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to prove itself runs out
against the terminal wall,

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breathless and bent small.

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Whatever the boy found belongs
now to cement and trowel.

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They sealed the cave's
mouth when he died.

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That's something that
happened a few years ago

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in the West Desert of Utah.

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There was a boy who got
himself upside down,

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stuck upside down, in a fumarole
and he never came out, so.

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