Italy is mine

... and it owes me a living

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Vera da Pozzo, an Italian expat in Paris.

From the Island of the Sun to the Isle of France.

My pseudonym Vera da Pozzo is a pun alluding to what I care about most : truth and loyalty, depth and insight. In my mother tongue, the syntagma "vera da pozzo" means a puteal, but it could be a female name followed by a family name. Water is indispensable for living, and we need to keep it pure and unpolluted; it is the same for truth.
I write in English because I love this language since my childhood and also because English allows me to have a more detached view on both Italy and France. The title of my personal website and blog is a paraphrasis of the verse "England is mine and it owes me a living", from Morrissey's song "Still Ill", released in The Smiths debut album "The Smiths" on 20th February 1984. As Italy had nothing to offer to young people like me, I decided to throw my arms around Paris, as Oscar Wilde did, and I am still here. Like francophone actor Lino Ventura, I am and I will always be Italian.

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12 hours ago2 min read

Silver Boy, brighten Darker Waves tonight

Above: detail and whole coloured drawing (in comic strip style) made by me yesterday, as I needed so much to enlighten the Sad Day of Remembrance - not to be confused with the Remembrance Day I wrote about, three days ago, here, and here, and also here. Sing and Shine tonight, Silver Boy! Be happy and brighten Darker Waves! Your Light never goes out. :) See you soon in Europe. To YOU Vera da Pozzo Paris, 14th November 2026 Below, photographs taken by me in my dear Parisian pa

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Sep 261 min read

Malu tiempu in Broccolino / Bad Weather in Brooklyn

Despite what the "ecological-negationists" say, climate change is already here and now, and it has an impact on Nature, Animals and Humans lives, and also on Art. It is really a pity that CBGB Festival has to be cancelled due to 50 MPH winds. As these kind of events happen more and more often, unfortunately, festival organizers should plan in-doors venues as an alternative place for concerts, in case of malu tiempu ("bad weather" in Sicilian), in order to avoid these cancella

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Italy is mine

Vera da Pozzo, an Italian expat in Paris.

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Silver Boy, brighten Darker Waves tonight

Malu tiempu in Broccolino / Bad Weather in Brooklyn

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