Mum, i’m an autistic, not a municipal transport company autistic
i know in your mother’s heart you always dreamed of settling down as a state employee,
without the worry of a time card to punch and unemployment
doing eighteen hours a week, three months off, with the anxiety of defiscalising repetition.
Ma, i am an autistic, bad luck has decided to crown, me, as a writer
no, ma, i don’t write therapeutic remedies, no invoice, like the doctor,
i have explained to you a hundred times that i deal in endiads and alliterations
i dialogue, every night, with ghosts and communicate with martians,
and, by now, like the Villa, no ma, not the baker of via Mentana
i mix latin, dialect and the average italian as a seasoned courtesan.
Ma, i’m autistic, i speak in distich, or in anapestic,
but go on, you understand, it’s not like i’ve become spastic,
at most flexible and elastic, says so even the troika,
thrown into life with a rocket like i was Laika,
victim of the artistic environment’s lack of communication
nailed, backwards, on my cenotaph the epitaph: “!Here lies an autistic man”,
since no one can catch me in any verse
or ma, don’t bother me, i’m a deviant.
Ivan Pozzoni was born in Monza in 1976. He introduced
Law and Literature in Italy and the publication of essays on Italian philosophers and on the ethics and juridical theory of the ancient world; He collaborated with several Italian and international magazines. Between 2007 and 2024, different versions of the books were published:
Underground and
Riserva Indiana, with A&B Editrice,
Versi Introversi,
Mostri,
Galata morente,
Carmina non dant damen,
Scarti di magazzino,
Qui gli austriaci sono più severi dei Borboni, Cherchez la troika and
La malattia invettiva with Limina Mentis,
Lame da rasoi, with Joker,
Il Guastatore, with Cleup,
Patroclo non deve morire, with deComporre Edizioni,
Kolektivne NSEAE and
Lo Stato Pontificio with Divinafollia. It contains a fortnight of autogérées socialistes edition houses. He wrote 152 volumes, wrote 1000 essays, founded an avant-garde movement (NéoN-avant-gardisme, approved by Zygmunt Bauman), and wrote an Anti-manifesto NéoN-Avant-gardiste. His verses are translated into 30 languages. In 2024, after six years of total retrait of academic studies, he return to the Italian artistic world and melts the
NSEAE Kolektivne (New socio/ethno/aesthetic anthropology)
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This article was posted on Sunday, October 19th, 2025 at 8:00am and is filed under Poetry.
