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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May the Breeze send my Gentle Thoughts to You

Lady Breeze, don't You know? My Friend is waiting for My Gentle Thoughts to fly From Me to his Mind Go to Him, Gentle Breeze: I can't go by myself And my Thoughts need your Wings For my Message to Him To YOU Vera da Pozzo 13th-14th September 2026 Poem by me, of course, and obviously without Artificial Idiocy Picture by me coming soon, when I am back to Paris from my very far-away workplace. Update - photo below taken by me: detail of my dearly beloved Sophora Japonica in my f

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Italy is mine

Vera da Pozzo, an Italian expat in Paris.

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