Calisthenic, Week 4 (make-up)

from the lexical accretion exercise on page 208 in Writing Poetry:

"I Don't Wanna Be"

I don't wanna be your bank broker
I don't wanna be your oyster shucker
I don't wanna be your pearl grinder

I don't wanna be your diamond slave
I don't wanna be your almond.  Babe
I don't wanna be your Joey Ramone

As you want it shown.  I wanna be
Flown into a ditch and peppered in
your itch.  Your boyfriend, penned

to a record--skip and not scratch.


* This is intended to be a play on the famed Ramones song "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend"