The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Monday February 13th, 2023
Down came the rain by Abigail George
‘Hold me tight. Love me right, tonight.’
Of course, Kathleen wanted to marry (climb that mountain). Find her soulmate (in green pastures and in those low valleys that other girls had found their husbands in). She wanted to be a mother, but, as the years went by, in time, she began to look after her elderly parents, count lovers as coming and going never staying to put down long-term roots in her twenties, then her thirties, then her early forties. She had never been beautiful, a real beauty in a sense.
Her features were attractive. In her twenties, she had been a good time girl. Going out with men when it pleased her. Meeting up with them in bars and clubs. She would dance away from them. The men would move towards her and then take her in their arms. They would hold her stiffly, away from them and then would pull her in close. She would swim in close with her dance moves and they would reach out for her.
She would go all limp in their arms after that and so, they would make their way across the dancefloor. She would melt in their arms. They would hold her body in the neon lights of the dancefloor stiffly. Kathleen liked to think of herself as being the one in control (not the man). That she was the one that was making all the decisions up until the sexual transaction. Ending up in hotel rooms.
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Since… #poem & #painting by Amir Khatib
“Since I remember things,
the past became ill,
And the night is a swing between two palm trees,
then,
the sky aborted her fetus,
And she turned a blind eye.”
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Insert Brain Here 2.0 #032 #cartoon by Paul Woods
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