The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems, the thoughts, the reviews, the photos, the paintings and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Saturday May 20th, 2023
That summer by Abigail George
‘Let’s go out tonight. My treat, Ingrid.’ Amanda said, with palpable excitement in her voice.
‘But what’s the occasion, Mandy?’ a rather withdrawn and serious Ingrid asked.
‘Ingrid, there doesn’t have to be an occasion to go out and eat at a fancy restaurant during the week.’
‘Oh, Ingrid,’ said Mandy with an urgency in her voice. ‘It doesn’t have to be your birthday or an anniversary or a promotion or something like that. When you live in a city, people go out and eat all the time. There’s no room for the mentality of a small-town brain like yours anymore. You have to think out of the box now. You’re living in Johannesburg now.’ Amanda laughed. ‘You’re such a mouse. You should meet Scotty’s Samuel. He’s also a mouse. Mouse people belong to mouse people. I’m a cat person.’
Yes, Ingrid thought to herself. I’m living in Johannesburg now. After all, I’m a city girl now, so, I should act like one.
‘What was growing up in Swaziland like?’ asked Ingrid, glancing up at Amanda while she perused the menu of the fancy Italian restaurant.
‘Boring but I had my freedom. Should we have wine with our supper, Ingrid.’
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THE DAY ARRIVED #poem by David Sparenberg
“The day (once more)
when the world as we know it stopped
the Doomsday Clock, barely
in the nick of time, stood still
the power of political death over
individual life ended, the
civilization
of greed and ego and violence
collapsed
returning to dust.”
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Fika bonding! #58 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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