Adventures in The Skin Trade

...cold stiff people with time to kill sat staring at their tea and the clock inventing replies to questions that would not be asked justifying their behaviour in the past and the future drowning every present moment  as soon as it began to breathe… time was dying all over the room.

Dylan Thomas
" Adventures In The Skin Trade."
from reading on 2nd February, !952

never completed
fullest version published  posthumously 1955.

Thanks to Caedmon Publishing.