Status Updates From Dubliners (Wordsworth Colle...

Lapsing halfway down the throat of its finale, a ceremonious feast and a cement dancefloor, the gray, dusted, bought but unused coloring-book lives of urbanized Irish civilians are collected in colors of the shortly-ceasing moment. Dullnesses of complexions from tin, zinc, stainless steel, and aluminum - materials which crochet their minimum wage manpower and leisurely negligibles into one cloth of motive - (cont.)

“At night in my bedroom and by day in the classroom her image came between me and the page I strove to read.”