I Wanna Be Yours
by John Cooper Clarke
I wanna be your vacuum cleaner
Breathing in your dust
I wanna be your Ford Cortina
I will never rust
John Cooper Clarke is an English poet who is regarded as a “punk poet.” He became famous in the late 1970s and released several albums. In addition, he published two poetry collections, Ten Years in an Open Necked Shirt and The Luckiest Guy Alive. His only prose work is I Wanna Be Yours, a memoir.
I wanna be your vacuum cleaner
Breathing in your dust
I wanna be your Ford Cortina
I will never rust