The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Sunday January 9th, 2022 – National Apricot Day
Therefore #ShortStory #fiction by Abigail George
Therefore, there is wisdom and truth in beauty. The conversation was heavy, so I went for a long walk on the beach, and wished I could find myself vulnerable, meeting the will of the divine wave.
I have lovers. I am pregnant. I have a husband, but he is gay, and I’m bisexual, and the child was conceived when both of us had too much to drink, and Blake was reading Rilke, and I was washing the breakfast rises, listening to Mahler. And I thought of the waves, the sea, the panting dog, the teenagers in their bikinis, how I was never brave like them, how I never had their graceful limbs, how nobody loved me when I was at that wonderland-age.
Yes, I smoke marijuana, and still have a death wish, and still have spells of despair, and deep hardship, and sometimes I swear I feel too much, and think too much, and obey very little, or not at all, and when I submit, I submit everything, everything, everything.
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Analysandly blind #poem by David Barger
“Roger dodger
Came the call.
The lunatics have escaped!
They hide within
The closing walls.
They crawl around
Listening in wait.”
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Where did all the speeches go? by Joseph Gatt
I remember times when there were so many public speeches I had to catch up with that I didn’t have enough time. I literally had to sit through Sundays catching up with all the public speeches I had to catch up with from politicians, journalists, scientists, public figures, what have you.
Those speeches were a vital source for my job: through those public speeches I was able to identify the concerns, the gaps in reasoning sometimes, the unknowns, the problems to be solved but also what direction we were headed.
I used to take notes, write notes on what I thought were disagreements I might have with the speech, or perhaps clarifications on one aspect that seemed to puzzle the person who gave the speech.
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Ephemera #035 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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