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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 / Lilac / Chloe Bausano

Lilacs lounge on discarded cardboard  
boxes in the courtyard off Cheapside,  

an unlikely candidate for purchase beside 
rows of careful curation, but the air is crisp 

on the back of my throat and the metallic  
city grates shine from the polish of every-  

day rain scrubbed over with shined shoes, 
and the lilacs remind me of my best friends’  

laughter, so I buy them for a few pounds more 
than someone else might.  


Chloe Bausano is a New York City poet with a degree in English Literature from Cornell University. Her work has previously been featured in multiple issues of Beyond Words Literary Magazine and Cathexis Northwest Press, as well as in The Dillydoun Review, TDR Daily, Wild Roof Journal, and others. She highly recommends people shop at their local, independent bookstores!

FICTION / Snowstorms in Kitchens / Michelle Bellman

FICTION / Tracksuit Elegy or (How I accidentally got my cousin whacked) / Jen Susca

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