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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 / Take It In / Cooper Dossett

Photo by chuttersnap on Unsplash

Photo by chuttersnap on Unsplash

The smallest thing
that we could be
is clocks on walls
at crime scenes.
We count the days
and add them up,
but settle for
what’s not enough.

Our eyes are bulbs,
bloodless and black.
We don’t record,
we just sit back.
No evidence
of having lived,
I choke on my
experience.

To kill a man
or chop a bull—
it all is just
a spectacle.
I sit in place,
criss-crossed and chained
to galaxies
with better days.

We conjure lust
for life not lived;
hail zoetropes
of consciousness.
The bloods roll wet
on golden floors,
and finally
you take what’s yours.


FICTION / Gone Any Second Now / Isabelle Correa

FICTION / normalman / Jody Gerbig

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