The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Saturday February 18th, 2023
Notes #ShortStory by Abigail George
‘What does that mean exactly, asking me how I am? Fine. Fine. I am always fine, and you? I ask you all the time how are you and you always say you’re fine.’ Silence seemed to creep around the edges of our telephone conversation. Inside my heart, running like ice through my veins. People change all the time and when the time came, when it was alright, she would change too.
I told myself this to placate myself. I knew how morally bankrupt she was then. How far removed we really were from each other, right then. Once, we had been inseparable. People change personas for love, as I am sure that she had changed her own self for her American lover. People changed their moral values when it came to love. We were sisters. Wouldn’t the point be we would always be sisters.
But how long could we go on loving each other. This sham playing itself out, that each of us cared what the other one thought. It was wrong of me to still think of her as pure. Virginal, sweet. An innocent with a heart filled with tenderness. You rained on me this morning, Constance, and I could hear the smile in your face, as you brushed your hair out of your face.
I remember when we roasted marshmallows around the fire. Your laughter. Your smile that reached your soul and then, everything would be alright in our world. I did not hate you, or the sound of your voice grating my nerves. You did not make me feel lost, empty, useless, panicky and anxious. Chapters of our childhood, are buried underground like volcanic rock.
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Lorie #poem by Michael Lee Johnson
“Lorie, you want to see me clearly
through this joy of my naked body
avoiding the sweat of my emotions,
just breathing on my neck
rubbing this baseline of my groin-
will not find us here again.”
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Wendell L. Willkie: One World by Rene Wadlow
Wendell Willkie, whose birth anniversary we mark on 18 February, was one of those shooting-star figures that occasionally cross the sky of the United States, a corporation lawyer known to the few concerned with corporation law as the able defender of big business, especially power and light companies against government regulations. As the power and light companies had never been noted for their social conscience, such a background was hardly a useful start for a political career in 1939 when people were still climbing out of a long economic depression.
It was Russell Davenport, the editor of Fortune, the magazine edited for those whose main interest was money, who was Willkie’s major champion and chief speech writer during the 1940 Presidential campaign against President Franklin Roosevelt. Davenport’s then wife, Marcia Davenport was also deeply involved in the Willkie team and gives a description of Willkie at the time “He was an old-fashioned, hell-raising, hard-wrangling liberal, with some of the evangelism of John Brown and the Boston abolitionists. But his concept of American democracy was middle-western. He was the small-town Indiana grandson of German immigrants who had fled Europe in the revolutionary upheavals of 1848. He was a Democrat, a man of the people, well-educated, self-made, belligerently independent, the antithesis in birth, temperament, tradition and education to the Hudson River Valley patroon in the White House.”
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Screws & Chips #54 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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