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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7 hours ago2 min read

Good Morning to You... Sing and Shine Tonight in Louisville

Morning has broken: starting a new day with a deep, beautiful song written in 1931 by Eleonor Farjeon on Bunessan, a Scottish Gaelic tune, recorded in 1971 by Yusuf / Cat Stevens. It rained a lot yesterday, during the late afternoon and evening, and it rained even more all the night long: I love the rain and I slept very well. Early this morning, while I was finishing and posting my poem and article dedicated to the Charolaises Cows I saw from the train last Saturday, the sky

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Mar 311 min read

Tonight

If the concert had been yesterday - this year, Monday is my day off at school, as Friday - it would have been better, because it is quite stressing to run away from my lycée which is at 40 km from Paris, but I am happy to attend another concert of Brigitte calls me Baby, the rock band from Chicago that I have discovered last year, thanks to Morrissey, who chose them as opening act for his concerts in Dublin and Paris. I am also happy to see again some French friends I met at

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Italy is mine

Vera da Pozzo, an Italian expat in Paris.

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Good Morning to You... Sing and Shine Tonight in Louisville

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