The Massacre

by Ivan Pozzoni / September 20th, 2026

But you will issue
to the radio or TV’s wire,
the heartfelt statement of not knowing
the reasons for this fire.

As if two years of layoffs and despair,
could not widen the divide,
between healthy minds and minds impaired,
guilty of seeking the sole cure inside.

Ten stabs become the only way,
to end the distance, end the ache,
as if the world could turn away
from the havoc that the poor hearts make.

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, September 20th, 2026 at 8:00am and is filed under Poetry.