I Wanna Be Yours

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John Cooper Clarke

1982

I Wanna Be Yours by John Cooper Clarke

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John Cooper Clarke, poet and national treasure, recorded this poem in 1982.

Most of Clarke’s poetry is rhythmic and can be set to music. It works best as a performance poem, best read aloud to maximise the humour.

It is a love poem with a difference, in that the speaker uses inanimate objects as m...

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I wanna be your vacuum cleaner
Breathing in your dust
I wanna be your Ford Cortina
I will never rust
If you like your coffee hot
Let me be your coffee pot
You call the shots
I wanna be yours

I wanna be your raincoat
For those frequent rainy days
I wanna be your dreamboat
When you want to sail away
Let me be your teddy bear
Take me with you anywhere
I don’t care
I wanna be yours

I wanna be your electric meter
I will not run out
I wanna be the electric heater
You’ll get cold without
I wanna be your setting lotion
Hold your hair in deep devotion
Deep as the deep Atlantic ocean
That’s how deep is my devotion