Today's OneWord: Measure

How much merit can you measure from me, mister? Is it a teaspoon or a half cup, white like flour but grainy like sugar? If I cheat on a test once a year, does that make the exams I don't tinker at worth anything still? Or is that occasional lapse of judgment and morality doom me in the end?

You don't think I wrote this essay, but I did. I could never copy something like this. The carbon monoxide in my father's lungs was real. The hope is not.