John Cooper Clarke

Recently saw a fascinating documentary on BBC4 called Evidently John Cooper Clarke.  For anyone not familiar with him he has always been known as a 'Punk Poet' as he supported a lot of the punk bands in the 70's.  His poetry is full on and very fast, but it somehow works.  Following the documentary I searched for his website  www.johncooperclarke.com/ and discovered he is coming to Lincoln Drill Hall in October.   His name was brought up at the Pimento Poets and I hope I was able to enlighten them when I sent them all a link to the following poem, which was actually on the GCSE syllabus in 2000/02:

I Wanna Be Yours

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