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 2018, 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, Here the Austrians are more severe than the Bourbons, Cherchez the troika. et The Invective Disease with Limina Mentis,Lame da rasoi, with Joker, Il Guastatore, with Cleup, Patroclo non deve morire, with deComporre Edizioni and Kolektivne NSEAE, with Divinafollia. He was the founder and director of the literary magazine Il Guastatore – «neon»-avant-garde notebooks; he was the founder and director of the literary magazine L'Arrivista; he is the editor and chef of the international philosophical magazine Información Filosófica; he is, or has been, creator of the series Esprit (Limina Mentis), Nidaba (Gilgamesh Edizioni) and Fuzzy (deComporre). It contains a fortnight of autogérées socialistes edition houses. He wrote 150 volumes, wrote 1000 essays, founded an avant-garde movement (NéoN-avant-gardisme, approved by Zygmunt Bauman), with a millier of movements, and wrote an Anti-manifesto NéoN-Avant-gardiste. This is mentioned in the main university manuals of literature history, philosophical history and in the main volumes of literary criticism. His book La malattia invettiva wins Raduga, mention of the critique of Montano et Strega. He is included in the Atlas of contemporary Italian poets of the University of Bologne and figures à plusieurs reprized in the great international literature review of Gradiva. His verses are translated into 25 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.