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One. Hello. I don't want to say something I'll regret so.

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Tell them. Out of nowhere, a green wall of water.

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In 5 minutes. You won't remember what I said to you so long.

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That's okay. Greenwich. Sweet Thames.

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Run softly till I. And. I woke up, my skin was the colour of cigarette ash.

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Whatever I touched decayed. So tell them I woke up.

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Stone cold. Shuddering as the ocean kissed my belly button.

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Tell him. I, i, um, i, i, um, I, um.

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I was outside an office block in Greenwich. Everything was flooded.

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The current took me. See the Millennium Dome.

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Like the barnacle humpback of a whale. A giant ping pong ball.

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It's, um, submerged half was a lost Atlantis.

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I beached on anchoring. Wet my fingers, gripping tent poles as I wrestled out of the salty brine.

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Other survivors lie stretched comatose on its greasy canvas.

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I, who have sat in Shoreditch in a barber's and seen a man stabbed to death in the street.

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I have stood on London Bridge, Russia, and clipped the yellow toenails from my feet.

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I stole a boat. Made. I jumpstarted its outboard motor.

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Chopping out to sea from while not that the engine died, but say that I erred on.

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Only with the cadence of a creaking boat. Of all the things that I had done to others.

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Knowing them and knowing and for nothing.

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I deafened myself. Let's say that London was catching my drift.

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Pretentious. Arrogant. Insincere means it.

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Mate. I've done such evil things, I can recount them only as cheap gags stick.

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Let me apologise. I'm dying of air. Not that I know what goes on in the world.

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Not that I deserve it, but have mercy, friends.

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Forgiveness. Realistically abandoned.

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Is not [INAUDIBLE]. Not always.

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Not even. Not quite. Not only.

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It took me time to say that. Actually, someone else had to say for me.

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Sort of. William Blake.

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I should say I was rowing when just then ghosting in a creased seat.

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He hovered. Like a sheet of Greaseproof paper.

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His eyeballs were glazed over like a salesman. Double glazed is the truth.

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Blake looked like a villain from a comic book. Obviously, he said as I wrote over, there's no rush.

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As with Steph economy of movement, he spirited into the dinghy.

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He grinned. He was smoking a cheap and brown cigar and one.

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To. Blake sat lazily like a child in the bath.

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No one is owed anything or deserves anything.

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Storm clouds kidnap the sun. The city great. Say a basking shark mimicked a Nazi U-boat off our prow, airing its skills at us deadening.

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We climbed in knee deep in Tidewater on a cafe's veranda.

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Only a loose flutter of nervous pigeons. Waded round the flotsam of plastic cups.

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Silverfish started. Bottled water, packets of ginger biscuits, sugar, salt, ultimate.

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I sat down to eat. Never had such rubbish.

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Tasted so good. It was raining. Find a stairwell.

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Climb up. It exhausted. See Blake glide up gripping the bannister.

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Go on without me. London is an ice cube.

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In a chipped mug of ersatz instant coffee.

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Don't talk about it. Only those things which I cannot forget.

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Storm the ocean vomited a boiling cloudburst.

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Like I heard last of Brian say, I forgot.

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Survivors set green, held under water until their lungs burst.

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I loosened the wet laces of my Klim soles. Waves obscured the city.

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Blake was loving that purgatory.

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Strained his side. It was trash talk. It's banter.

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It was like a hippie who'd fried his brain on ketamine.

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And I just. I just ignored it, to be honest. I mean, what the [INAUDIBLE] was he doing there, anyway?

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[INAUDIBLE] sake. Blake was saying I had no faith, and now I cannot doubt I suffer.

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Shut your eyes. I'll story us out of this storm and drang of London.

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Of global warming. Of Heat magazine.

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Of thawing ices. Of a squalid terms cramped with barrier.

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And of its fall ad under us. Listen.

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And before I could stop him, he had started. And two.

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Three. William Blake story. Emerald grass on Albion's ancient druid.

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Rocky shore burned, waterless and charred in the heat.

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Think now. The atmosphere grew hot as a gas oven sweltering,

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so the seas absorbed its heat and the heat poured in through the magnifying lens of the skies until the Arctic ice floes began to crack.

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Think now. Low coastal villages were left to drown.

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So they engineered a great ocean barrier. But Stillwater's built up.

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Still ice caps melted. Still, we did nothing differently until with a great cry.

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Pigeons flapped up hastily to thin air like grey parrots scared out of a

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rainforest as billions of tons of brackish water surged in the city's streets.

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Sunken and muted. Stolid.

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A green sound on the seabed. I can remember it.

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At Greenwich. At Deptford.

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At Waterloo. Think now.

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Nothing looked into its face and lived.

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And three.