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Sunday, September 21, 2025

SPECIAL SECRET

by g emil reutter



Posted by Mark Hamill at Bluesky



Whack-a-Mole

Jeff is still there

Throw everything against the wall

It doesn’t stick

Jeff is still there


Hammer and miss

Hammer and miss


Jeff is still there

Make crap up


Attack attack attack

Whack whack whack


Jeff is still there


What lurks in shadows

Of special secrets


Reality is creeping up

As these two creeped

Young girls.

The last one standing

Shall fall hard

And no matter how

He may try heaven is

Not calling

Virgil awaiting his arrival



g emil reutter is a writer of stories and poems. His latest release is Distance to Infinity, an anti-authoritarian poetry chapbook.