Pretend Amnesia

In a past part of life
I dated two young ladies
At the same time.
Risky from the start
and there were two
complications unsolved.

They were both named
Jane; I know, right—who
would date two Janes?
If that wasn't enough,
their phone numbers
were a single digit off.

To rescue myself
from those missteps,
in ignorance I asked,
is your mom Mary?
Or Beverly? And then
proceeded to business.