La vie en rose... in spite of the black cloud
Life is never easy, but Nature is my true and only guide in this Knockabout World . I am really tired of all the envious and evil people...
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Italy is mine
... and it owes me a living
Art and Nature, music and literature, animal and human rights, freedom of thought and speech, kindness, culture and education without boundaries.
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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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Max and I
Max, you came to Paris from Canada Just to find and love Me this Night "Oh, he really loves You!", Says the Lady you belong to And I tell...
Just let...
Just let Your Kindness flourish And Their Envy languish Let Your Love astonish And Their Hatred perish Just Relish Cherish Burnish...
Lucky Escape
Mid-morning, grey sky and silence: I was not meant to come here, Still I came, for I needed to have a walk In my beloved and quiet...
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