I Wish I Was...

I wish I was Bertrand Russell
I wish I was Noam Chomsky
I wish I was Elvis Presley
I wish I was Dorothy Parker
I wish I was Mark E Smith
I wish I was Peter Cook
I wish I was Lisa Simpson
I wish I was fucking Tom Daley
I wish I was Brian Eno
I wish I was Max Miller
I wish I was TE Lawrence
PG Wodehouse
And Oscar Wilde
Oscar Niemeyer
Roland Barthes
And Wittgenstein
And Nechayev
Loved Bakunin
I wish I was Buddy Holly
And Little Richard
I wish I was Larry David
I wish I was Victoria Wood
And David Sedaris
Lorca
Durer
Bosch
Bruegel
Michaelangelo
Miro
Tito
Dali
Gaudi
And I love Gramsci
Justin Bieber, too
And Jedward, obviously
I wish I was Alan Bennett
Tony Benn
I wish I was Linda Smith
And Arundhati Roy
Ronan McNern
Edward Carpenter
Mick Jones
Carl Sagan
Mad King Ludwig II Of Bavaria
I wish I was the Barefoot Bandit
I wish I was Robert Wyatt
I wish I was Elián González
And Bradley Manning
I am Subcomandante Marcos
And Spartacus
I wish I was Gilbert
& George
Or Björn from ABBA.
And my monkey, monkey, monkey
I wish, I wish, I wish...