I went running around asking everybody I know. I already asked my mother and the woman who lives next door. I've been running around asking for so long. I wanted to ask my grandmother, but I couldn't get past the weather. But it was good to sit together, on her couch of seafoam green. All her secrets safe without me. And I called up a friend who lives very far away. I took up all her time in asking, but she didn't know what to say. I said I wouldn't keep her, and I set down the phone. Whined from the receiver the muffled dial tone. You were outside smoking, standing out in the snow. I've been running around asking like I don't already know.