Running crippled like a poor debutante
into the frantic balls of the housing bubble,
i realized, months too late,
that i had died from a deep gaping gunshot wound,
notified i was overdrawn
during an outing to the graveyard.
It is the free market, a certified toll,
at the helm of finance – creative, compulsive-
caught fiddling, hands in the purse,
with noble swagger.
Banks collapse, stocks fall
like stars in the night of Hades,
triggering chains of suicides
among high-born slaves, in naked cups.
Free market, born around the turn of the 1900s,
self-hauling juggernaut in motion,
free us – animals on the roadside-
from your investment manias.
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, August 30th, 2026 at 8:00am and is filed under Poetry.
