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mouldering

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The pile of mouldering receipts is not the only thing giving off a stench of secrecy in the corridors of Parliament.
1 target if some lunatic starts a nuclear war, but we also face the prospect of a Rosyth mark two and a generation of toxic submarine hulks mouldering away on the doorstep of our biggest centre of population.
JUST so I don't disappoint my reader in London (and, I believe, a few other poetry lovers closer to home), I offer you this extract from Welsh Landscape, by RS Thomas: "There is no present in Wales, And no future; There is only the past, Brittle with relics, Wind-bitten towers and castles With sham ghosts; Mouldering quarries and mines; And an impotent people, Sick with inbreeding, Worrying the carcass of an old song.
 
 
 
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