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"Breach."

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So I don't know--

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I feel like this needs a
tiny little bit of context.

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So I don't know if y'all have
ever seen whale jawbones.

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But in Whitby, England,
which is the Northeast coast,

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the fishing town.

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There are these whale jawbones
that are kind of set like this.

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So they're set up into the air.

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And when I was a very young
person, I took a picture--

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had my picture taken
under those bones.

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And again, it was like
now, 15 years later,

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if you really think about it.

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Because it was
just uncomfortable.

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"Breach."

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"The mandible, and
behind it 99 steps.

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The mandible, boiled
and arched high enough

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to hold the cemetery,
the close stacked

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houses, and the Abbey
across the water.

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The original bones
balanced atop the mast.

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The original bones replaced
by a thin whale's jaw.

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The fin whale's jaw replaced
by a bow head's jaw.

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I stood under the bower
of bone and felt myself

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trying to get outside myself.

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Sacs first, then inside out.

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I felt myself.

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My assorted sacs and straps
arranged in and around

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my cathedral of bones.

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I dropped my jaw into the Earth.

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I called this a smile.

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Under the bone arch
at the cliff's edge,

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I was inside out for the
woman behind the camera.

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She had baleen arms.

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She was a strainer.

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I was caught in her
plaits, and her fine hairs.

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I thought better to be
inside the whale of a woman

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than the bones of a whale.

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Better the fun
house of the mind.

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How many of me laid end
to end and down again.

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7 and 1/4 keystone
to pave stone.

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Better the fun house
than the sublime.

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Balloon animals in the skull.

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Devil's punch bowl on the moors.

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17 years ago and
my sacs still dip.

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I had no business
under those jawbones.

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No business with the woman.

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No business on film, though
I wouldn't call it pleasure.

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Even now-- even now, I
wouldn't hold my own gaze."

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