I Wanna Be Yours by John Cooper Clarke

I Wanna Be Yours
John Cooper Clarke (1949 - )

Punk performance poet John Cooper Clarke’s humorous, energetic poem will resonate with anyone who is madly in love and desperately trying to articulate their feelings. Alex Turner, frontman of the Arctic Monkeys, has often cited Cooper Clarke as a source of inspiration. This poem has also featured on the GCSE syllabus.

The best lines in the poem:

let me be your electric meter
I will not run out
let me be the electric heater
you get cold without