Stop everything,
we want to get off the train
that struggles on, stop after stop,
arrest after arrest,
its tracks never quite becoming tangent,
lodged, without comfort, on the bandwagon
of a state agency, of a multinational corporation,
of the chairs at a condominium meeting;
it is better to ride in the last carriage, they say,
in case of an accident we shall have
the incontrovertible fortune of dying brain-dead.
Stop everything,
we want to get off the roller coaster
that dances and spins upon itself,
turning us upside down, heads under and backsides out,
far from the constraint of the reflux of liberalizations,
the freedom to exit the labor market,
to refuse laurel crowns, to belch before a consistory,
contesting VAT, property tax, income tax, local tax, high-speed rail,
Tavor and Serenase, taken out of urgent necessity
at every urge to croak outside the chorus.
Stop everything,
enough, stop,
the European Union asks it of us from the dark corners of a porno shop;
millions of homeless from American society ask it of us,
glad to join the thousands of new members of Ambrosian Caritas;
professors of economics and masters of finance ask it of us,
ready to translate the despair of the people into executive orders,
with the ultimate aim of relocating from the Hungarian area
the headquarters of a major industry, installing them in Termini Imerese.
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).
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This article was posted on Sunday, June 21st, 2026 at 8:00am and is filed under Poetry.
