i dare you
i dare you to love
to love you to love me
to love love and to
stand in love
bare armed openpalmed
bloodhearted
i dare you
to write love poems to yourself
write love poems to me
to be that lovepoem
and stand on the footpath
at the train station and give
the lovepoem of
yourself to the peakhour
commuters every bleakday
morning
i dare you
to dare me
to love you to love me to be
that lovepoem to myself to you
to those fucking Collins Street 5 pm
commuters. God knows they need it.
John Brack: Collins St 5pm (1955)