The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Tuesday April 12th, 2023
TRUTH IS RADICAL – a Prose Poem or Ecosophic Meditation by David Sparenberg
Look: Civilization ended in a post-midnight place named Auschwitz; with the terminal moment of anti-event, at the irreversible dropping of The Bomb on Hiroshima. The ultimate supermall of death. The ultimate militarization of ideological and scientific progress.
There has been, of course, throughout the history of human crime, much deception, betrayal, atrocity. Suffering has always been at its worst wherever presently afflicting. In the immediacy of traumatic experience, suffering is not a numbers game. And inhumanity has always, always been justified by power and complicity. And yet, on the diagram of the advancing psychosis of Apocalypse, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Hiroshima-Nagasaki, are Absolutes. The standards of cruelty, horror, the civilizational terminus of life having any chance at recognized personal and interpersonal value.
And yet, and yet…sputtering and resuming since the end of civilization, we practice, we propagate, we go on. Continuing in the pretenses of illusions. Continuing to invest in the metaphors of rape. Pervasively covering up, trying to forget what should never be forgotten, struggling anxiously under the daily surface to remember what we chose not to remember. Barely avoiding vertigo. Craving the drugs of artificial happiness to avoid the nothingness of the fallen, shattered image of a failing species.
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Cracker Jack Box Poem by Michael Lee Johnson
“My mind is rustling
leaves, sound shadows
and deadening echoes.”
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Sceptic feathers #62 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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