I found you lying, on your back,
in the dark heart of a distribution center,
forklift drivers and warehouse hands watched,
they watched you, and laughed.
Your end, marked by a streak of red,
on blue concrete blocks of the industrial floor,
was imminent, and gasping, you turned your terrified eyes around,
toward the metal sky of orange currents,
searching for air, searching for air.
Air is the true wealth,
no one noticed it
at the edge of your end,
air is the real wealth.
More than the extermination company, the forklifts hurt,
your tiny chest mimicked a hawk’s grasp,
opening and closing your newborn snout,
the last image in the dark hands of a Moroccan driver,
you dreaming of moons made of cheese
in the shadow of a pallet of biscuits,
a hunting trophy thrown into a trash bin.
Air is the true wealth,
back at work no one noticed.
The true wealth is air.
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, September 27th, 2026 at 8:00am and is filed under Poetry.
