Cool (from a writing prompt asking to mimic a great poet. I selected Gwendolyn Brooks.)

I want to be - cool

cool as in like Cool Hand Luke cool

cool as in Steve McQueen cool

Ya know, like so cool you don’t even know

What cool is ---                    

                                        cool

I wanna go fast down Woodward

And Jefferson and race with all the cars

And pass by all the cops that can’t catch me because I’m

cool cool cool like so fucking cool.

It’s cool to be cool

We do things because we’re cool

cool is what cool does

We fly cus we’re cool

We drive cus we’re cool

We stay out late and party cus we’re cool

cool I wanna be cool

I wanna be Luke Wilson

In a Trans Am cool

I wanna be like Burt Reynolds cool ---

That’s called white person cool ---

I wanna be white person cool

Because in real life I’m just plain boring

And stereotypically uncool & white.