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 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, September 27th, 2026 at 8:00am and is filed under Poetry.
