What else exhausts like sustained deception?

“When I woke in the dark I was smiling - it's a happy thing to brace for a visit…”

“Listening to Dad’s guitar, halting yet lovely in the search for phrasing, I tho…”

“I remember it as October days are always remembered, cloudless, maple-flavored,…”

“We beat the drum slowly and played the fife lowly,and bitterly wept as we bore …”