Hold on tight now, my sweet.

Perhaps you can place rocks into the stream

and slow its progress?

Ah well of course, there's little hope of that.

You can break it up a little or a lot

(and I'm sure that salty scientists with

counters and machines would tell me that

the water round the rocks is slower than the

water that was not obstructed in this way)

but you know,

if I was the sea,

I really would not be concerned

at all.