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Jaia Papitz
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Jaia Papitz is the founder and sometimes editor of iExile. He writes poetry, essays, plays, and screenplays, with satire and fiction. He is the author of Bulă, or How We Invented Quantum (2026) and Voidward (2025), both from iExile Press. His photography work may be seen at photoExile.
Doing God
I wish, I were, I was impotent
While going around the skies
Finding a lost god
After the crash
I like the way I'm restored
in a new window
firefoxed by the hounds
Metaphorless
I’d like to fuck mountains in the ass
Forcing their lava subside in the liver
Cirrhotic and moonshinless
of…
I wouldn't start the email with a barren dear or I hope this finds you well...
I want to be polite like a gentle summer rain after the drought
and lascivious like a baby born naturally, I want.
Of late
I’m late
the century just passed by carrying the breathable
ticketless, on the red painted curb
Unraped
Allow me the pain of a mortal
don't remove the street sign, the crosswalk to the other curb,
the mortgage or the ungrazable lawn of the pearly gates
Zen Nazi
Have you seen those 'Zen Nazi' lately? You know, those who'd rather hug a tree instead of their child (most likely the kid who'll be a candidate to walk in the school with a…
Read More →Mourning, into the absurd
Like the powerless gazelle watching its calf being eviscerated ravenously by an insensitive feline, we mourn absurdly the perennial tragedy. Why? What monster could have committed…
Read More →At dawn, again
Bayonets smothered by dew
Sighs coagulated by vagrant veins
hope for the sunshine, unseen
Before
I love life at the funeral
In the morning, when the deceased is unknown, warm and still hated
When the tax man is about to start his rounds, ruthless and docile
i Exile – Vol. 1
Well, now that iExile is back up and all the malicious intruders are out, we plan to make this online publication more accessible. The goal is that every quarter, beginning with…
Read More →Virtual
the face I see, I dream
tomorrow I'd love
my fingertips forgot the longing for whispers
Whispering deserter
Last night I deserted the war that was waged between
the entities
were left in the trenches they owned
Bin Laden is dead. Long live the king.
The other day, the fear was murdered. Ambushed in the dark corner of the hope, the monster was slaughtered so we can reclaim ourselves from our evil twin that wiretapped and…
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