Closets aren't just for gay people so make room, closets are for the people who are to scared to go out of the bathroom during lunch, there for bench warmers and the kid that never gets the ball, Closets are for every cut she carved into her body, there for hiding the best cereals on the top shelf, there for church goers and party goers but mostly for the people that do both. Closets are for the nerds and for the try to be jocks, the try to be hipsters and the try to be anybody's cause they still haven't figured out that no matter what you try to be you will still be human, and god will still judge you the same. Closets are for the monsters that aren't under your bed.
There for dead people and how a casket is the last closet that you will never be able to get out of. Closets are for the timeout chair, and for coat hangers and for the jackets that she took, there for shoving your entire room into so you can hang out, Closets are for the blind, for the insomniacs and the ones that are actually homosexual. there for the bruised hearts yet beautiful skinned, there for everything that the poor kids can't afford, there for old books and for old trophies and for old pictures, there for worn down shoes cause the new ones stay next to your bed, there for the underwear drawer and how I've never actually hid something there,
Closets are for the audio tapes and and if your old enough or a "try to be" then there for the records and the record players, There for the sit by yourself at EVERYTHING kids, there for the Single men and women above the age of 50, there for the bald at 19, CLOSETS ARE FOR EVERY PERSON THAT'S EVER CRIED, There for the Black people in the 1800's there for the Black people in the 1900's and there for Black People now,
There for the dead flowers and for the flowers he never gave her, there for the burned out light bulbs, there for the last cigarette in the pack, there for the all star hide and go seek players, there for abused children and for the harry potters, Closets are for the sleeping pills for the anxiety pills and for the ADHD pills, and how everyone in my life seems to be taking some sort of pill that I never got, some sort of pill that makes you happier some sort of pill that makes you giggle a type of pill that ripped of the hinges off your closet door and flings it open and shows you that the world is full of people and each one is stuck in a closet and how its actually sunny outside and how people actually do smile back, and how nobody cares if you got a stain on your favorite t-shirt.
"Closets aren't just for gay people so make room." Loved your concept. Your transitions, how each idea flowed into the next. The last paragraph was my favorite. "Some sort of pill that makes you happier, some sort of pill that makes you giggle, a type of pill that ripped off the hinges of your closet door and flings it open and shows you that the world is full of people."
ReplyDeleteI won't think about closet the same. Love this.
ReplyDeletethere for church goers and party goers but mostly for the people that do both.
I love it all.
Oh, and the title.
ReplyDelete"Do I look suspicious?"
great post.
So much good here, I can't quote it all. Nice job
ReplyDeleteThe line about party goers and church attenders going there was way too good. Closets aren't for gays. What a concept.
ReplyDeleteI hide my cereal on the bottom shelf. Anyways, excellent post.
ReplyDeleteMhmm. I enjoyed the whole thing.
ReplyDelete"For shoving your entire room into so you can hang out"
ReplyDeleteThis post is so good.
yes. yes. yes. killed it again.
ReplyDelete"Closets are for every cut she carved into her body, there for hiding the best cereals on the top shelf, there for church goers and party goers but mostly for the people that do both."
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This is easily one of my all time favorite posts IN THE WORLD IT IS SO GOOD
"the try to be anybody's cause they still haven't figured out that no matter what you try to be you will still be human, and god will still judge you the same."
ReplyDeleteI don't know how to explain this, but I feel like you know and understand and see things about life that most people don't. It sounds ridiculous but I mean it.