Letter to The Age 18 September 2012:
"Ode to Matthew Guy"
HE LOVES a sunburnt country,
a land of sweeping cranes,
of haggard mountain ranges,
of overcrowded trains.
His love of far horizons,
filled with concrete towers,
he dreams of more of this,
to exercise his powers.
To achieve his main objective,
he must always plan and try,
to destroy all that's pleasing,
to one's heart and soul and eye.
As he gazes into the distance,
at magnificent green wedges,
he imagines how they could appear,
without trees or even hedges.
He must plan all this madness,
to please developers bold,
to have shoddy plans enacted,
to maximise their gold.
He has just announced his greatest plan,
which does away with zones,
just like a hapless vertebrate,
deprived of all its bones.
Though earth holds many wonders,
wherever he may die,
we know this urban wasteland,
was due to Matthew Guy.
Hilary Poad, Frankston

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