Leonard Cohen read you my poem

I couldn't say the words to you
that I was so desperate to
say
so I sent Johnny Cash
to sing outside your
cottage
Leonard Cohen came
to the cafe where you wait
tables
to recite poems I'd written for you
I gave
Madonna flowers
I picked from her garden
because I
was too scared
to meet you in person
Quentin
Tatantino agreed
to direct the short film I wrote
Uma
Thurman played the part of you
I played myself
though
too accustomed to the role
I invited you to The Ritz
Hotel
so we could watch it together
I planned to
meet you there
and sometimes I still wonder
if you
got on
the horse drawn carriage
I asked Buckingham
Palace to send you
or if, like me
you stayed
away.