Running Around Asking

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.

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