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1. Explain the relationship of the story's title to the Amichai poem excerpt used as an epigraph.

The title of Dybek's story is "We Didn't," which refers to a young man's doomed attempts to have sex with his girlfriend. In Amichai's poem, the lovers have sex in various places--but in Dybek's story, the couple is shown in various places where they come close to having sex, but ultimately do not. Many of the places mentioned in the story are directly repeated from the lines of the Amichai poem.

2. Where are some of the places listed in the poem's opening paragraph, and how do they convey the couple's youth?

Some of the places that the narrator lists as places where he and his girlfriend did not have sex are "your room on the canopy bed you slept in, the bed you’d slept in as a child," the backseat of the narrator's father's car, and the girlfriend's mother's car (233). These details--her childhood bedroom, both of their parents' cars--reinforce that the couple is too young to have their own cars and apartments and that they have to sneak around to try to have sex where disapproving families will not know about it.

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