secrets and closet doors

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i toss my secrets into closets

hoping they hide in the corners

with the spiderwebs and tumbleweeds

but they're crawling up the walls

attaching themselves onto my clothes

and although i brush them off

pieces of my secrets are starting to show

to those who pay attention

[get it off, get it off, get it off]

but otherwise i'm good at hiding them

even though it's getting harder to close the door

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but the thing about doors

is there are spaces

where the wood doesn't touch the floor

making it easier to open

and for the secrets to come out