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DRUNK MONKEYS IS A Literary Magazine and Film Blog founded in 2011 featuring short stories, flash fiction, poetry, film articles, movie reviews, and more

Editor-in-chief KOLLEEN CARNEY-HOEPFNEr

managing editor

chris pruitt

founding editor matthew guerrero

POETRY / My Mother Petitions the Makers of Bejewled Blitz / Jennifer Schomburg Kanke

My mother wants the dead to go away,
tired of how they pop up among the list of the living,
in whatever the last profile picture they selected
not knowing it was the last. Perhaps next
to last because they’d been thinking
about giving up social media, eventually,
or perhaps not everything, perhaps just the games
of colorful chains and timers,
hoping for a boost from friends.
There’d be one more picture before that, right?
One more after they’d lost the weight,
one more after they got those partials,
one more after the tan lines faded,
but certainly not the last, forever floating
on a yellow raft in someone’s backyard pool. 


Jennifer Schomburg Kanke is originally from Columbus, Ohio and currently lives in Tallahassee, Florida where she edits boring confidential documents at Tallahassee Community College. Her work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Nimrod, and Court Green. She is a reader for Emrys.

POETRY / What We Cannot Keep / S.B. Easwaran

FICTION / Cottontail / Mike Sweeney

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