In opting for swimming, Kiki chose perhaps the toughest of disciplines: long hours of arm - heavy laps in the practice pool, where the only view is a shadowy blue blur that may be another swimmer or one's own imagination; the greedy slap and gurgle of arms (reach,
grab, recover, reach, as the late Matt Mann rationalized it); the ring around the
eyeballs, endemic to the competitive swimmer, caused by chlorine, which makes the whole wide world glow with halos on the way home
from practice.
Grab some socks
from your bin of socks that have lost their other half and glue some
eyeballs, various ribbon, or any lightweight loose parts that you have around.