Interview with a Killed Man

by Ivan Pozzoni / June 7th, 2026

The editorial board gave me a task bizarre,
to run, philosopher, on a bike through Milan’s boulevard,
hoping to lift from shadow and gloom
the story of a man met by early tomb.
I searched the corpse of a hardened bandit,
the common man’s death is seldom candid.
I hid in the cool of a mortuary hall,
questioning each tenant, one and all,
and met the ghastly, pale despair
of a robber’s remains, stripped bare.
“Why were you killed?” I asked with care,
“didn’t you escape from your bank affair,
ending victim of a guard’s quick gun,
failing to vanish, nowhere to run”?
“More than a wound, it was my mind”,
the corpse replied, bitter and unkind,
“the theft i suffered crushed my heart,
fear of rising rates tore me apart,
thirty percent! My end was near,
not the bullet, but the economic fear”.
Those who read my verses, expecting pain,
will find, in conclusion, a moral plain:
sometimes the interview with the dead
shows who is victim, who lies ahead.

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) Read other articles by Ivan.

This article was posted on Sunday, June 7th, 2026 at 8:00am and is filed under Poetry.