Downstream

have been doing a mile in
twenty-three minutes, while
he ‘only turned himself on his
back for 40 yards’ twice
during the whole time.
It’s a bleak morning in
early May and everything
looks dull when I get off a
bus at Battersea Bridge. I’m
intending to walk a little way
upstream from here to try and
find the site of a swimming
match held in 1838. The road,
the pavements and even the