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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 / Give Me a Tune Like "Get Back" / Elli Samuels

as they strum,
smoke, celebrate,

you can’t help feeling
there is cavernous quiet

in their minds, stocked
with combinations

to melodies, tunes
award winning

poetic refrains
—in competition

with silence.
this power to imagine,

the urgency, invisible,
—at least to us.

each of the four,
with his own angels

rotating takes
with exhaustion.

forms of song
like private psalms,

mythologically
birthing to life.


Elli Samuels is a poet living in Texas. Her writing has appeared in anthologies and journals such as Wingless Dreamer, Maudlin House, Pif Magazine, and Bones. She is a cookbook author (2014), a yogi, a runner, and is never without passion for a stellar cup of coffee.

POETRY / Jan Brady Syndrome Is a THING, and Also, No One Likes Me / Shannon Frost Greenstein

ESSAY / Elizabeth Holmes and the Tragedy of Being "In Tech" / Melanie Brown

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