It’s a £7,000 verse - but is mine worse?

LEONARD COHEN’S Sixties poetic love letter to Marianne Ihlen is to be auctioned for around £ 7,000. The Canadian crooner wrote: ‘It’s hard to write you. The surf is too loud. The beach is too crowded and you’re too much in my heart to put anything down.’

I hope I don’t have to die before the love poem I wrote to my 16-year-old surfer boyfriend Derek is sold off.

It was six stanzas, not just 26 words long, with the refrain: ‘He rides his sea, cares not for me.’

Starting bid — £1.