Tarantella(Ending The Beguine) - Apologies To Hiliare Belloc Poem by Dónall Dempsey

Do you remember our fling, Amanda?
Do you remember our fling?
And the kissing and the longing
and the heavy petting and the wanting

to jump
into bed
and then: how when
we came
to our senses

& decided that this must stop.
And that...was that.
And we kissed and parted and
pretended to forget what couldn’t be
forgot

Do you remember our sin, Amanda?
Do you remember our sin?
Our sin, Amanda, being
...to end
before we began.