Downstream

(Jeff_L) #1

around 8 p.m. on a hot day:
‘we saw a man in the middle
of the river, with his mates
outside a pub cheering him
on, then on our way back we
saw an ambulance and he was
being given CPR. He died the
next day. It’s the shock of the
water when you’re drunk.’
Outside the snow-splattered
window the river looks like
dull scratched metal. I go up
on the top deck, where there’s
a bit of a blizzard blowing,

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