Ben Bonkoske

  • lie f

    Things are taking much longer but time is moving much quicker. I am unprepared and under-educated to write for you all tonight. There is history being made in the next room of a blue, white-haired balding bunny politicizing for president. I wish Davy Crockett hats were still in style because it just looks like two rowdy boys battling over a girl to me. America the beautiful. It all just a beauty contest. Thank you, JFK, risking your life for change. I don’t think a president does enough unless he is killed. I had a bad Bern, and now I am just applying Biden sunscreen. It makes me sick people would rather take the safe route of no progress leading to nowhere than stand for a revolution. Change. What is different? Surely not progress. The Government was designed to move slowly. The social and cultural movements are a result of the people but warriors hate each other for being the same. It is a little ironic the recent atrocities that have occurred when we are a red nation, and how boring we can be when we feel blue (with the exception of a blowjob). It just seems like an expensive argument. I wrote a little constitution last night of all of the things I am going to implement in my life and one of the final things I wrote  I was going to carry as a reputable character trait was that I was going to be informed about our nation’s state of affairs. I know nothing, I see nothing. Perhaps it is because I haven’t left the nest but the only thing that politicians and the people mutually care about is the economy. Is the economy good, is the economy bad? Are we going to fix it, are we going to continue the same way we have been for the past four years? It is all just mumbo jumbo because nobody knows which policies actually make the difference or if the clown in charge actually persuades the people. I don’t want to talk about it because I don’t care. I am stupider than I was three days ago and hooked on a sweet tooth. I’d bet I gain back my four pounds and I doubt that is making any headline. I really hope it never does. The weight of celebrities seems to be a wonderful topic to gobble and gulp down like nicotine. I just think that everybody’s values are a little blindsided. And here I am, not listening to another white man who says he’s going to make a difference. Perseverance.

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  • Living

    I need to find a way to enjoy myself without killing myself. I was just so bored with being good, surely people who drink every day can understand a release. Today, I was like a sailor lost at sea on a beautiful boat. It would have been nice for you to be here, but frankly, it was an ugly reminiscent of my speed days (and nights). I sit here with foggy regret over a pack of cancerous, motivation-inhibiting, focus dilapidating yummy gummy bears at four o’clock in the morning. Two cups of coffee and half a pizza. I even rooted on my arch enemy. I don’t know why I have so much guilt over things that aren’t worth a sweat. I let go of everything I had pent up because of my horoscope. If I can be so easily swayed by an app I downloaded two days ago, I worry about any “progress” I’ve made. I think I edited five, maybe six chapters which is a beautiful feat, but I have a trembling worry that it won’t matter because I don’t have a reliable editor. I’m contemplating taking things into my own hands, but that is how you end up with a bullet in the head. I will admit, I don’t think I was anymore happy today after I broke my promises to myself. Perhaps more productive, but if I had just TRIED before I acted, I would probably be just as far along, and twice as happy. I’m debating if I should start over with Alice in Wonderland, because I know, for the next three weeks, my work will be compromised. It is an ugly thing to live so dangerously – even now as I glimpse in the mirror I’m afraid I won’t recognize me. And such a beautiful living when you do everything right. Even now, I see that there are clustered words and a shorter manuscript. It is worth the rare moment, but never in the long term. I will just have to start over, “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne ceaselessly into the past.” #neveragain its a learning game

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  • L earning

    I do not like that feeling of having something lingering to do in the morning. I think it’s called work. Ironically, I had a very productive day because I put all the things I had to do behind me. Some business scurried away out of arms reach, and I ran after them but these were triathlon tasks. If I leave my self to natural tendencies for some reason I am a night owl. I don’t know why, but I just come alive at night, busy as a bee and awake as a vampire. This is only mentioned because I have a job to do in the morning, so my 10 pm schedule is blog, journal, meditate, and read, so I will be lucky if I’m asleep by 3.
    I don’t know if milestones are meant to have the hollowness of “just another day” but we can only celebrate so much before we grow younger and are back in our high chairs covered with spaghetti. Someone told me that maybe God destroyed the world so I could have spiritual peace, and oddly my tarot cards suggest a similar decree. People get tired of being awkward so they drink, but I’ve never seen anybody who wasn’t born with self-confidence carry out a casual conversation with a beautiful stranger elegantly. We are all so secretly rough around the edges because we thinking very highly of ourselves. Anybody will swat at threats to their megalomania as if people were flies. Nobody wants anybody to be better than them, and we are worse off because of it. There are always people who take things too seriously and there are usually two outcomes for these people. They either get what they sought after (occasionally not fulfilling them in the way they expected) or they never reach their goal because it always looks like it is beyond the next horizon. I would hate to not be happy with myself at the end of the day. Oddly enough though, it is rare for people to look down upon people publically unless they are actually less qualified to do so. To say it a different way, people who are mean are usually stupid. Oh, if there was anything I don’t want to be it is stupid, and yet I hate the progress of others around me. It makes me feel so small. I know it is me that shrinks myself down to microscopic opportunity, but why is competitivity caving in on the team? It is just so much easier to call days off, lie in bed, and wait for morning.
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  • luve

    too much of the right thing goes sour. I am overwhelmed by doing so little that it is agonizing. To my surprise, I’m very bad at disguising all of my short-comings and flaws. To anyone, even people who don’t deserve to know me. I hate that I am nowhere where I want to be and I don’t have anybody to cradle me. It is one direction or sink. Sometimes I laugh at how lucky I am, but it always comes back around and I realize I only feel that way because of how much I read. Books make me dream bigger than my reality. They take me away from modernity My greatest fear is being redundant or saying the same thing over and over but there are only so many things you can spy with your little eye until it comes full circle. A simple checklist might save my life. You know what I need? Exactly what is coming for me. Tomorrow and I wouldn’t be the half bit surprised if it stole away all the meandering, subtle, unenjoyable, slow progress I equate to not smoking. I don’t want to reread Alice in Wonderland over a spice that doesn’t serve me. I remember being this bitter the last time I made this much progress and at the end of the day, the simplest way to be happy for yourself, is to just be happy for others. It is not a damn contest and it is a shame that that is the angle that I look down from. I don’t want to be a redheaded academic, and I respect the man who was able to walk on the shore a little longer than the world might have implored. I had all my dreams come true a few nights ago, but then I woke up. I am very sensitive – to the extent of being insecure whenever someone tells me there is something wrong with the way I process words. It is not like classical piano, there is no correct way to write a sentence – well, grammar, but I, am a poor poet that will happily die penniless while the young girls swoon for me from my grave. I’m looking forward to it these days. It is not worth the complications of marriage, or the disaster and hazards of love for the living. I don’t know what, or why I end up being so nice to people and rude to other prospects. It usually has to do with how much they threaten me if I’m just being honest. Honesty, what a joke in this fucking filthy world. It all doesn’t make sense to me. How we can all lie in front of one another and happily stab them in the back once they leave. I’ve seen it with my own ears.

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  • laugher

    I’m very bad at finishing anything, so the end of the day makes me anxious that I might complete something. I doubt I will make it to the end of my life. I started my day off feeling rejuvenated by a heavy sleep and good dreams about my childhood friends. Roughly 14 hours of forgiving myself. Once I awoke, the rest of the day was filled with convincing myself I am not good enough until I finally gave up. It is a slow-burning depression. I can never find the time for what I love until it is too late and after I have made enough excuses to disqualify any potency to my words. I miss people. When was it easier? I am thankful David Foster Wallace killed himself because he shows that beauty is not something that can be held onto. Just another day wasting away. I’m addicted to so many things. After I’ve given up so many others. I can’t let myself live.