The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems, the
thoughts, the reviews, the photos, the paintings and the cartoons Ovi
magazine covers for Thursday November 8th, 2023
SERIOUSLY a Back to the Future Story for Present Telling by David Sparenberg
The Collector rode around, galloping from kingdom to kingdom
through fires and floods, through raging winds—the roaring blaze of day,
the howling torments, tempests of night. The Doom Collector carried the
gore-sword of sacrifice, blood moon of the midnight clock, the
mercurial scales of evolutionary judgment.
Everyone everywhere wanted to live. Those who did not had already
taken their own lives or were attempting, absurdly and in haste, to
hide, deep in the cavernous underground, deep in the shadows of
darkness. These latter as afraid to live as to die. Ah—the vanity of
men!
Eyes wept. Mouths pleaded. The blood pandemic progressively inundated the globe.
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Solidly So by Saloni Kaul
“All through life we’re riddled with extremes keen
Like towering highs and touching rock bottom
That render complicated thriving in between
If we take them to heart, like birthdays, eggs rotten.”
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Velimir Khlebnikov: (9 November 1885 – 28 June 1922) The Futurian and World Citizen by Rene Wadlow
Velimir Khlebnikov was a shooting star of Russian
culture in the years just prior to the start of the First World War. He
was part of a small creative circle of poets, painters and writers who
wanted to leave the old behind and to set the stage for the future such
as the abstract painter Kazimir Malevich. They called themselves “The
Futurians”. They were interested in being avenues for the Spirit which
they saw at work in peasent life and in shamans’ visions; however the
Spirit was very lacking in the works of the ruling nobility and
commercial elite.
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Mika Toxica #66 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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