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Rafe Davis circa 1985 to circa 2013, poet, novelist, and musician
Disambiguation: Rafe (W.) Davis, poet and musician, not Raphael Davis, mixed martial artist.

Raphael W. Davis, better known simply as Rafe, was a turn-of-the-21st poet, novelist and musician. "Rafa," as he was known to his parents, was born to Frank and Rosario Davis in the mid 1980s. He spent his childhood in Texas and moved to Cincinnati, Ohio in the 1990s. Davis was active in a number of small punk bands in Greater Cincinnati during the early 21st century. He was known for his guitar playing and poetic lyrics. He also played drums and base guitar. Rafe wrote the novel, Queen City Blues, which circulated among friends and family around 2007 and was later redrafted. Shortly before his death in 2013, Rafe reported to have been ghostwriting a second novel. Davis relocated to California in 2008 and became a core member of a the indie band The Love Dimension. The music the band produced was later self published and again released on the British Label, Smoky Carrot. Rafe Davis passed away in the second decade after a long fight with cancer.

(Throwswitch (talk) 06:26, 18 September 2018 (UTC))

Rafe Davis, Political Activism
Rafe Davis was involved with the Ohio Democrats during the 2004 race between John Kerry and George W. Bush Rafe was known as a patriotic Ohioan and feminist, as he expressed in his display of a Pink Ohio map shape displayed on a flag in his Cincinnati bedroom. Rafe was an avid reader of political philosophy, yet his taste for contemporary literature was more independently oriented, as he often purchased fanzines.

(Throwswitch (talk) 07:13, 18 September 2018 (UTC))