Two Letters to the Editor

Dear sir,
Bravo! Your stance on the Monsters
rampaging unchecked
through our city is long overdue. They've wrecked
property with rampant abandon, fully conscious
of the mayhem
they're causing, but do we stop them?
No! What do the army do? Let them off with a salvo
round the ear. Meanwhile, honest folk
have to put up with buses crunched underfoot.
Last Sunday, I couldn't even watch Poirot,
they were roaring so loud. It's a joke!
Every morning we trek through smoke and soot
that smells of their radioactive flaming
breath. The streets are littered with jagged scales,
as they go on pointlessly maiming
and blinding. I, for one, have had enough.
These creatures are off the rails
and it's time we got rough.

Yours,
Mr. L. Silverton

Dear sir,
I was shocked and appalled
at your one-sided commentary
on so-called
'Monsters' (a word that is far too fashionable
these days, and used wrongly. See the entry
in the Oxford English Dictionary.) A venerable
paper such as yours should rise above
the instinct to mock, ostracise and generally hate
the prehistoric victims of nuclear testing.
Why do the smug, priveleged, mostly white
and warm-of-blood
classes think they're so much better? Try resting
in volcanic rock for millions of years,
waking up with skin like a cave's insides
and no money or job prospects.
See how long you last the ride
before, tired and vexed,
you tear down the tiers
of a major city.

Yours,
V. Demontis