Warehouse Scrap

by Ivan Pozzoni / August 2nd, 2026

The continuous-form printer insists,
relentless, feeding electrostatic grumbles
from the office next door,
accompanied by the irritating screech of a clerk
crushed by the banality of being an annihilated aedo,
guilty of belching tedious stories
about goods, discounted, in xabd format.
A surly sense of uselessness assails us,
brutalized by the terror of dying of hunger, and of wounds.
And -indiscreet-the noise of forklifts,
amplified in the belly of a bottle of alcohol,
numbs brains made drowsy by years and years
of tasks done and redone,
done and redone, endlessly, without questions.
The idea – an unhealthy woodworm-
of having invested entire lives
in argentine bonds gnaws, without respite,
at our ebony hearts.

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, August 2nd, 2026 at 8:00am and is filed under Poetry.