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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 / Allstar, Forgive Me / Jennifer Schomburg Kanke

Image courtesy Warner Bros.

I have failed you time again
with my six-pack rings and unrecyclables.
I have bought oil and gas
from the shady-ass company
who drilled through the Snork Pole
long before they messed up Pensacola.
I have plopped a bleach disc
in my toilet tank without so much as yelling
a single “Sorry, Snorks,” down the pipe when I flushed.
But hey, at least I’m no Junior Wetworth,
union busting and cramming my pockets full of salt,
right? At least I stay up here in outer space
where we never have to face each other.
You’re welcome, little friend, you’re welcome.


Jennifer Schomburg Kanke, originally from Columbus, Ohio, lives in Tallahassee, Florida, where she edits confidential government documents, which is not nearly so spy-like as it sounds. Her work has appeared previously in Drunk Monkeys, as well as in Prairie Schooner, Nimrod, and Sou'wester. She serves as a reader for Emrys.

ONE PERFECT EPISODE / King of the Hill: "I Don't Want to Wait for Our Lives to Be Over" / Matthew Daugherty

POETRY / New Rommate Bush Hall, 1994 / Jennifer Schomburg Kanke

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