
John Cooper Clarke: Punk and poetry
The Interview
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I Want to Be Yours
The poem that I got you to read earlier, I want to be yours, is in a sense taken on a life of its own. It has been downloaded more than a billion times. So amazing. That's what poetry will do. Did you worry about people getting the right message from it? Or you've put it out there and you don't really care quite how people use it? No, I don't care. I can't control it. If I could, I would, but I can't. You have said you will never stop writing poetry. Since the wilderness years and my second... For you, the creator of this, what does that mean? Without a doubt,
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