 A series of "laments", the pieces develop themes which Iordan Chimet would reuse in later works, such as the images of his native Galaţi as "the Old City" and an exiled monarch who would become "Baltazar the Little Fish".In one of the "ExiL" free verse pieces, titled "Lamento cu o pălărie galbenă" ("Lament with a Yellow Hat"), Chimet wrote of himself and the landscape of the Old City