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Jaia Papitz

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Jaia Papitz is the founder and, sometimes editor of iExile. He writes poetry and essays, with occasional satire and fiction, and has published over 120 pieces on the site since 2007. 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 Poetry
Poetry

The Fog of 11/03/09

after work
family intercourse
the fog began to descend in the fall

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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...

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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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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

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Poetry

The known

in search of the metaphor
of the truth
bounded by 25 gods

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Poetry

The last chance, we rigged

America the beautiful,
at night &
in the hi-def tv. set

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Poetry

The Mute Mermaid

Forsaking Mermaid's cry
beyond the shores,
unbroken waves are crawling,

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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

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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

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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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Poetry

To the other poet

I often dream
Of the poet
Whose qualms

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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

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Poetry

Unfriend

I just unfriended myself
To enchant my detractors
Jubilating at my clicked self loath

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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

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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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