Elizabeth Warren

I'm tired of living in negative capability. It's a very difficult way to live.

John Keats didn't die of consumption, John Keats died of negative capability, the very condition John Keats named as necessary for the poet to live in to write poetry; that is, tolerating the stress of living with the unknown as being the paramount necessity in the making of a poem (or any art, for that matter).

Jimi Hendrix didn't die of a drug overdose. He died of being overwhelmed by the demands of his record company who ran him into the ground, and overdosed while trying to escape the feeling of being overwhelmed. Jimi Hendrix took drugs because he couldn't sleep, he couldn't sleep because he was overwhelmed by the demands of his record company, he was overwhelmed because he was conscientious, he was conscientious because he was raised a certain way in a certain system at a certain time.

When I listen to music now it's hard not to hear businessmen in the music, and a whole system behind the businessmen. Poetry still seems pretty pure because there's so little money in it and it really tries to make something beautiful, at least most of it does, and all poetry is is some words that ask us what beauty is and expect us to have some sort of answer.

The picture the other day on the front page of the "New York Times" of the Obama's, Clinton's, and Kennedy's all together lighting the torch on the 50th anniversary of JFK's death made me want to take a drug. I felt overwhelmed both by what I didn't know and what I couldn't change.

I hope Elizabeth Warren runs for President.