I Wanna Be Yours

I Wanna Be Yours is a poem by John Cooper Clarke, on his 1982 album Zip Style Method.

The poem recounts the love of one person for another, using metaphors around various domestic equipment:

Let me be your vacuum cleaner
Breathing in your dust
Let me be your Ford Cortina
I will never rust

The poem was included in a GCSE English anthology.[1]

Clarke re-used the title of the poem for his autobiography published in 2020.[2]

Adaptation

Arctic Monkeys brought the poem to a wider audience via an adaptation[3] on their 2013 album AM.

References
  1. Times Educational Supplement https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/gcse-poetry-i-wanna-be-yours-by-john-cooper-clarke-12368787
  2. Clarke, John Cooper (2020). I wanna be yours. London. ISBN 978-1-5098-9610-3. OCLC 1148197088.
  3. Under the Radar http://www.undertheradarmag.com/interviews/arctic_monkeys1/


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