The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Saturday April 1st, 2023 – Fools’ day
April fool’s day by Dr Elsa Lycias Joel
Neither did I relish the idea of making a fool of someone nor did I appreciate people who tried to do the same with me. So, the very mention of April fool’s day made me anxious and angry.
Even as a kid I have wondered why is there this day that entitles people to fool others without understanding if the person at the other end is really enjoying this foolery. Also, I noticed the intensity of practical jokes and hoaxes increased year after year, in all places. Not all enjoyed childish japes. Some kids laughed, some cried and many excelled in the art. Come March 31st, I was wary about not being pranked by particular persons and I felt great about the control I exercised over myself into not giving in. Yes, I couldn’t bring myself to laugh over a handful of silly boys calling me a fool, be it January, February, March or April. To me, the only girl kid in the household, each one of them who tried to pull my leg looked like a desperate fool whose attempts appeared to be water on a duck’s back. As I grew up, their strategies to fool me grew nastier. Thinking back I’m certain nobody succeeded in cheating me for three reasons:
1. I was stubborn
2. I never trusted anybody readily
3. I mastered the subtle art of giving a damn
Knowing my love for my turtle Peek-a-Boo, they tried making me believe that one of them saw him being thrown into our well. I stayed calm watching their facial expressions because I knew Peek-a-Boo is after all a turtle. Once in six months our water well was cleaned of slit mud sediment by that ‘long man’ whose name I wasn’t capable of pronouncing. I called him so because he was lean and lanky with long limbs.
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Community #poem by Jan Sand
“When politics leaves only a bag of dirty tricks,
And business, more or less inspires crime,
When love resolves into few quick fucks
And kids become a noisy painful waste of time,
Perhaps it’s best to call it quits
And line up all those silly ducks
To realize this life is made for brainless shits,
For sadistic nincompoops to enjoy,
To deploy vast miseries of quizzeries,
Of final disappointments.”
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Manish’s Zodiac Signs Predictions for April 2023 – by Manish Kumar Arora
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Mika Toxica #51 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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