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Jaia Papitz

124 works

Jaia Papitz is the founder and editor of iExile. A writer working across poetry, fiction, satire, and the unnamed forms between them, Papitz has published over 120 works on iExile since 2007. His writing moves through fracture, bureaucracy, longing, and the pressure of being alive inside language. He is the author of Bulă, or How We Invented Quantum (2026) and Voidward (2025), both from iExile Press.

Genres: Essays Fiction Poetry
Essays

The Freedom Phobia: Today Iran, yesterday America and always, I

It's common today to feel for the anguish of the Iranian people. It was humane, yesterday, to mourn for the Virginia Tech casualties. Two decades ago, we thought that the…

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Poetry

The Illusions from Ceiling

I am looking above and I see nothing is nothing to be seen else I do not want to look I shut my eyes cry, I pray to appear high…

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Essays

The killer next door. You & I!

Awe hijacks the TV sets and the radio antennas tremble with shouts of pundits devouring the new breaking story. Another one of us, a human, has committed a horrible crime.…

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Poetry

The kiss, the satin & a year

The smile descended in the room past five One wall was made of shade the one erected on the pedestal of light is burning thin A kiss slipped thru the…

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Poetry

The known

in search of the metaphor of the truth bounded by 25 gods by known love, hated and in between running away from every juvenile center, society Ferel I couldn't become…

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Poetry

The last chance, we rigged

America the beautiful, at night & in the hi-def tv. set like the love of a whore in the distance untapped like a gazelle before the hunter's breakfast, is desired

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Poetry

The Mute Mermaid

Forsaking Mermaid’s cry beyond the shores, unbroken waves are crawling, vying for love of hers Billows of tides engulfed entirety of mine Whole depths reflecting in the skys Unhiding sighs…

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Essays

The New World: America or The Last Chance We Rigged

1492 seems like a galaxy away yet The Dark Ages appear more prevalent than ever. The New World, accidentally or not stumbled upon, once discovered, it reignited the aspirations of…

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Essays

The obtuse idiot cycle: Michelle Malkin

Just because one has an audience it doesn't mean that one has a valid reason to express. Michelle Malkin, in her recent post, the jihadi virus in our jails, states…

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Essays

The obtuse idiot cycle: Rush Limbaugh

Listen! I do not agree with most American imperialistic policies. I'm not happy about Mr. Obama's accomplishments during his immature presidential term and I certainly refute the validity of the…

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Poetry

The one I knew

The immortal I met the other day Had died I’m told He went missing For as far as we remember Dead or unseen A same A he, a she or…

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Essays

The System(atic)

The economy is a decaying corpse and, for our own sake and health, the rotten stiff must be cremated. The iv therapy applied to our social system it's just prolonging…

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Poetry

The unfaught fight

Let's fight until the fight is fought until the living mourns itself while the one is finally alone undigging the trenches on self waiting for at least one argument a…

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Poetry

To the light!

To the light! The army was marching to conquer. In the camp, in the night The spoken was born In the morning; with silence Too quiet to fight A battle…

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Poetry

To the other poet

I often dream Of the poet Whose qualms Were wiped by dementia In a vastly unpublished collection Whose neurons traveled Without fecundating us Buried under rubble Ash scattered by the…

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Poetry

UnAlphabetless

Should I spend the night with JustALizz? Nah! give her just a minute or two She’s almost in the middle, Mary’s that prudish kindda slut Change your mind & dial…

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Poetry

Unfriend

I just unfriended myself To enchant my detractors Jubilating at my clicked self loath Friends! Said I, this usb 3 mouse is indigestible to felines So, prey for me, unaware…

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Poetry

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 Let the…

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Essays

Versus

Health care; an American vanity? A world's indolence? The metamorphosis of The Hippocratic Oath from a factual statement into a myth? The constant competition, just to bow into the spot…

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Poetry

Virtual

the face I see, I dream tomorrow I'd love my fingertips forgot the longing for whispers attics and shadows in above, deciphering braille on lover's sighs the shotgun father preparing…

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