Hour 12<\/p>\n
Family Closet<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Keep the bad ones in the closet.<\/p>\n Sort of a family tradition to<\/p>\n keep the doors shut and locked.<\/p>\n Grown-ups kept the keys<\/p>\n in the liquor cabinet.<\/p>\n On special nights<\/p>\n after several cocktails,<\/p>\n they let the feelings out.<\/p>\n Children were not allowed to see<\/p>\n anger fly across the living room,<\/p>\n sadness seep into soup in the kitchen,<\/p>\n fear rattle the rafters.<\/p>\n Pretending to be happy,<\/p>\n compliant children kept their closets closed<\/p>\n until of legal age,<\/p>\n when they could get their own keys.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sue Storts<\/p>\n 09\/02\/2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hour 12 Family Closet Keep the bad ones in the closet. Sort of a family tradition to keep the doors shut and locked. Grown-ups kept the keys in the liquor cabinet. On special nights after several cocktails, they let the feelings out. Children were…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":737,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/737"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136851,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136830\/revisions\/136851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}