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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.

Genres: Essays Fiction Fragment Poetry
Poetry

The known

in search of the metaphor

of the truth

bounded by 25 gods

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Poetry

A sigh

The glimpse and its belongings stopped

I was afraid

along

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Poetry

Booty call

Death came in the room

upon request

and I laughed at her obedience.

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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 world…

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Poetry

To the light!

To the light!

The army was marching to conquer.

In the camp, in the night

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Fiction

A town close to nowhere

From above everything seems close to nowhere. The steps, the dreams and hopes, the bus station or the bus itself seem to take us nowhere. The Globe itself seems to spin with a…

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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 that: “...…

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Poetry

Creation Cycle

after they made the day, its end

a cluster-keeper was needed, the year

from there, for ergonomic reasons,

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Essays

Mecca vaccine

The word Mecca from the title could be replaced by any of the following: Hollywood, Holy-Land etc. since they represent the same essence but with a different form. Perhaps Dream…

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Poetry

F.G. Lorca

In the dawn of the battle

the army was dead.

No one has stopped. No one has stopped.

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Essays

Atlas, tea, the mob.

Two years ago, sitting at my kitchen table and talking with a friend while sipping a cup of coffee and inhaling with nonchalance the all-damaging tobacco smoke, the idea of…

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Poetry

Look

look there where they could not see

where we are blind

the bait is not taken

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Essays

Everyone is a terrorist or a hero! Isn’t it?

Another hero. Another terrorist. Another brave marine. Another hole in the ground. Until tomorrow when we'll repeat. Stay with us to see a world record: a mammal gave birth to 8…

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Poetry

I traveled the land

I traveled through black land

gay land

meadows of white trash

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Poetry

I

I look behind, seeing the unlost

I stop

breathing as usual, formerly

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Essays

Let there be science!

After eight years of a delusional presidency - where talking snakes, senator horses and born-again were more important than knowledge itself – we finally attempt to reenter onto…

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Poetry

Starved

alone in the cage he felt

Starved

the peep view with flowers

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Poetry

Laughing man

The view with abyss

the rolling with said

and insignificant with actually

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Essays

In time of crisis

In time of crisis extreme ideas tend to gain adherence. Desperate humans are inclined to believe the radical rhetoric and extravagant promises, hoping, like a junkie, for a quick…

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Poetry

The Illusions from Ceiling

I am looking above and I see

nothing

is nothing to be seen

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