The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Wednesday April 13th, 2023
Extraterrestrial by Jan Sand
Some time ago, back in the late 1940’s, I became fascinated with tropical fish. They are quite beautiful and very different from any of the other animals I kept as pets, requiring that their water, food, and general care be closely watched so that the aquarium remained in good health. The aquarium was of reasonably large size so I acquired several types of fish, but my favorites were a pair of black striped small angelfish and I was lucky enough to discover, as they matured into large size that they were a mated pair. As I grew to know them better and as they grew to know me better our daily confrontations became recognizable signals of food or other standard possibilities.
Although I am fully aware that much of the living world is far too different from me to manage even faint interpersonal relationships, since apples are unfortunately mute, and whatever might be going on in the mind of a potato or a wild and uncivilized mushroom is far too occult to accomplish mutual communication. I expect the same is true for anything that might slither out of a flying saucer, but that opportunity has never faced me. Sign language has had a modicum of success with a pair of gorillas, but angel fish are ill equipped in that area as well, so I was left to devise, with what seemed to me small successes, with a vocabulary of significant wiggles and lip expressions. None of that, of course, even vaguely approaches a simple Shakespearean sonnet, but one must be satisfied with faint implications of fellowship, and it seemed to me something was getting across, and since I and my angel fish were both heterosexual and somewhat of a family, my presumptions may not have been totally outrageous.
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Picking over the Bones #poem by Dr. Lawrence Nannery
“Dilapidation is the earth’s sucking love.
That’s what you learned here today, high up.
Take heart.”
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Screws & Chips #58 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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